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CVE-2025-54558

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-07-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-829

Description

OpenAI Codex CLI before 0.9.0 auto-approves ripgrep (aka rg) execution even with the --pre or --hostname-bin or --search-zip or -z flag.

Affected products

• OpenAI Codex CLI: before 0.9.0 — fixed in 0.9.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenAI Codex CLI 0.9.0. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://github.com/openai/codex/commit/6cf4b96f9dbbef8a94acc1ff703eb118481514d8
• https://github.com/openai/codex/compare/rust-v0.8.0...rust-v0.9.0
• https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/1644

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