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CVE-2025-2241: Hive: exposure of vcenter credentials via clusterprovision in hive / mce / acm

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-17 · updated 2026-10-31
• Weakness: CWE-922

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.

Affected products

• hive: from 1.2.4105-7735bf3 through 1.1.16
• Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2: all versions

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2241
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2351350
• https://github.com/openshift/hive/pull/2612

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