# Openshift-ai: overly permissive clusterrole allows authenticated users to escalate privileges to cluster admin

CVE record · `CVE-2025-10725`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-10725`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 9.9 Critical
- **Critical:** Yes: CVSS 9+
- **CNA:** redhat
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-266](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/266.html)
- **Tags:** [Privilege escalation](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/privilege-escalation.md)
- **Technologies:** [opendatahub-io opendatahub-operator](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/opendatahub-io-opendatahub-operator.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.16](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-ai-2-16.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.19](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-ai-2-19.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.21](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-ai-2-21.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.22](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-ai-2-22.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.24](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-ai-2-24.md)
- **Published:** 30 Sept 2025
- **Updated:** 24 Dec 2025
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 30 Sept 2025, 17:47 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Critical

Critical, because:

- CVSS score 9.9: 9.0 or more.

How we decide what’s critical: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: opendatahub-io. Product: opendatahub-operator.
  - affected: `before 3.0.0` (semver)
  - Other versions: unaffected
  - Package name: `opendatahub-operator`
  - Collection: `https://github.com/opendatahub-io/opendatahub-operator`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.16.
  - unaffected: `sha256:cebc8815e03b772343b15d0a7dce8fad6fcc71dd437d871db5a3691472350803 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhoai/odh-rhel8-operator`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.19.
  - unaffected: `sha256:43a8904396e55074ffb1afcfcd8fe6db0edcbc918a8ff8301b6b0920aea7eabf to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhoai/odh-rhel8-operator`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.21.
  - unaffected: `sha256:db339d2d4f86af4efa695ef193d19e26b25fec80017fa2780833a4cd944e383b to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhoai/odh-rhel9-operator`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.22.
  - unaffected: `sha256:dccc7c6cf920da7ffeadbad42f5727f2d58d54ceef399ac98441345d06ff10c4 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhoai/odh-rhel9-operator`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.24.
  - unaffected: `sha256:12c1d1066e75951aad1d333bcbc1675ba7a795b57744294c23decec1655709c7 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhoai/odh-rhel9-operator`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 9.9 Critical, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (redhat)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0072, the 54th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 30 Sept 2025. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-10725](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-10725)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-10725](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-10725)

### References from the CNA

- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16981> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16982> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16983> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16984> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17501> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10725> (vdb-entry, redhat)
- <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396641> (issue-tracking, redhat)
- <https://github.com/opendatahub-io/opendatahub-operator/commit/070057ebd0882be0e397bee1daa18c36374a03c0>
- <https://github.com/opendatahub-io/opendatahub-operator/pull/2571>

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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