CVE-2025-25208 Rhcl: authorino denial of service through authpolicy with sharedsecretref severity
A developer can cause a denial of service in Authorino by configuring an AuthPolicy with a shared secret reference, blocking policy evaluation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-25208?
CVE-2025-25208 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Red Hat Connectivity Link 1, published on 9 Jun 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
A Developer persona can bring down the Authorino service, preventing the evaluation of all AuthPolicies on the cluster
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-25208?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/kuadrant/authorino.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
github.com/kuadrant/authorino Go | All versions | None |
github.com/kuadrant/authorino Go | All versions to 0.20.0 | None |
github.com/kuadrant/authorino Go | All versions to 0.20.0 | None |
How do I fix CVE-2025-25208?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2025-25208 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-25208 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vqvv-2wj5-q34w, GO-2025-3747.