CVE-2025-5417 Rhdh: red hat developer hub user permissions
Standard cluster users can modify the Red Hat Developer Hub container image content, compromising data integrity and confidentiality until pod restart.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2025-5417?
CVE-2025-5417 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Red Hat Developer Hub, published on 19 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
An insufficient access control vulnerability was found in the Red Hat Developer Hub rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 container image. The Red Hat Developer Hub cluster admin/user, who has standard user access to the cluster, and the Red Hat Developer Hub namespace, can access the rhdh/rhdh-hub-rhel9 container image and modify the image's content. This issue affects the confidentiality and integrity of the data, and any changes made are not permanent, as they reset after the pod restarts.
Weakness: CWE-266
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5417?
How do I fix CVE-2025-5417?
No fix has been published for CVE-2025-5417 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-5417 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5417 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qxg3-p56f-vx54.