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CVE-2025-2241

high

A flaw was found in Hive, a component of Multicluster Engine (MCE) and Advanced Cluster Management (ACM).

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.

CVSS
8.2
8.2 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (secalert@redhat.com)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2025-03-17 17:15
Modified: 2026-10-31 08:16
NVD status: Deferred
Last synced 2 hours ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-31 08:18 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).

Affected products

Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-922

Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.

Mitigation & advisories

No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.

References

Data sources

NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-31 08:18 UTC · record ↗

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