CVE record · CVE-2025-57852

Openshift-ai: privilege escalation via excessive /etc/passwd permissions

CVSS 6.4 MediumEPSS 0.0016 · 4th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 30 Sept 2025, 14:37 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.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.16 Package name: rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel8 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:97e2bd9b587f08e135a9aeb9b3e0dc6eafa1a9bdacbb5ecb681ce9bd5aa37fc9 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.19 Package name: rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel8 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:53ac36baa374159b9065c718a9ede821bbb61d9ebe9502b2243e0a9f7aca0d16 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.21 Package name: rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:687c8eeed55f021ecaab1307f0e88b5b16d91f72d63b3d7168d7bbee90e8947b to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.22 Package name: rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:1709fa3c79aad4ba7eb9be8299949396092c8e20210124e0c0936385bc04e839 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.24 Package name: rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected sha256:92629b1462ca2ed121dd2f3069a005d78e00e1344d330d6a8710f53ec58b74b8 to before * rpm Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2025-57852
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-276
Tags: Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.16
Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.19
Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.21
Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.22
Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.24
Broken access control
Published: 30 Sept 2025
Updated: 6 Mar 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.4	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 4th 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

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16981 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16982 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16983 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16984 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17501 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57852 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391105 issue-trackingredhat

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.