CVE-2025-2241

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

State: Published
Severity: 8.2 High
Published: Mar 17, 2025
Updated: Oct 31, 2026
Reserved: Mar 12, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-922 Insecure Storage of Sensitive Information

Affected Products

Product	Versions
hive	1.2.4105-7735bf3 through 1.1.16Affected
Multicluster Engine for KubernetesRed Hat
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Red Hat

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2241vdb-entry
RHBZ#2351350issue-tracking
https://github.com/openshift/hive/pull/2612

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