CVE record · CVE-2025-57853

Web-terminal: privilege escalation via excessive /etc/passwd permissions

CVSS 6.4 MediumEPSS 0.0016 · 5th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 8 Apr 2026, 13:55 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 Web Terminal Package name: web-terminal/web-terminal-tooling-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2025-57853
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-276
Tags: Red Hat Web Terminal
Broken access control
Published: 8 Apr 2026
Updated: 8 Apr 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 5th 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 8 Apr 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57853 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391106 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.