CVE-2025-2241

HIGH

OpenShift Hive - Unauthorized VCenter Credential Exposure in ClusterProvision Object

Title source: llm

Description

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.

References (3)

Core 3

Core References

https://github.com/openshift/hive/pull/2612

Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2241

Issue Tracking issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2351350

Scores

CVSS v3 8.2

EPSS 0.0042

EPSS Percentile 33.4%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Details

CWE

CWE-922

Status published

Products (3)

openshift/hive 0Go

Red Hat/Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes

Red Hat/Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2

Published Mar 17, 2025

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026