Vulnerability record/PUBLISHED/Published Mar 17, 2025 16:27:20 UTC

CVE-2025-2241

A flaw was found in Hive, a component of Multicluster Engine (MCE) and Advanced Cluster Management (ACM). This vulnerability causes VCenter credentials to be exposed in the ClusterProvision object after provisioning a VSphere cluster. Users with read access to ClusterProvision objects can extract sensitive credentials even if they do not have direct access to Kubernetes Secrets. This issue can lead to unauthorized VCenter access, cluster management, and privilege escalation.

Base score8.2/ 10

SeverityHighCVSS 3.1

Exploitability / impact

CVSS metric breakdown

Vector-derived attributes

Base severityHigh

Attack vectorNetworkAV

Attack complexityHighAC

Privileges requiredLowPR

User interactionNoneUI

ScopeChangedS

Confidentiality impactHighC

Integrity impactHighI

Availability impactNoneA

CVSS vector stringCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

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Record context

CVE Numbering Authorityredhat

Last updatedOct 31, 2026 07:33:11 UTC

PublishedMar 17, 2025 16:27:20 UTC

ReservedMar 12, 2025 04:52:38 UTC

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Eric Fried (REDHAT) for reporting this issue.