CVE-2025-2241 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-2241

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

Vulnerability 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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

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

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes, Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Vulnerable Versions:
1.2.4105-7735bf3

Timeline

Official Publish: March 17th, 2025
Last Modified: March 18th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.