CVE-2025-2241

HIGH8.2

Hive: exposure of vcenter credentials via clusterprovision in hive / mce / acm

Published Mar 17, 2025

Modified 5 days ago

Details

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

WEB

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

WEB

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

ADVISORY

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-2241

CVSS Analysis

CVSS v3.1

8.2

Exploitability

Attack Vector