CVE-2025-5962 Rhel-lightspeed: improper access control in lightspeed history management allows local privilege manipulation
Local attackers can access and manipulate other users' chat history in Red Hat Lightspeed, potentially leading to social engineering and unauthorized command execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-5962?
CVE-2025-5962 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, published on 22 Sep 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was found in the Lightspeed history service. Insufficient access controls allow a local, unprivileged user to access and manipulate the chat history of another user on the same system. By abusing inter-process communication calls to the history service, an attacker can view, delete, or inject arbitrary history entries, including misleading or malicious commands. This can be used to deceive another user into executing harmful actions, posing a risk of privilege misuse or unauthorized command execution through social engineering.
Weakness: CWE-284
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-5962?
Linux distribution packages (4)
command-line-assistant Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0 | All versions | 0:0.3.1-6.el10_0 |
command-line-assistant-selinux Red Hat:enterprise_linux:10.0 | All versions | 0:0.3.1-6.el10_0 |
command-line-assistant Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.3.1-6.el9_6 |
command-line-assistant-selinux Red Hat:enterprise_linux:9::appstream | All versions | 0:0.3.1-6.el9_6 |
How do I fix CVE-2025-5962?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2025-5962 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-5962 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-3c94-6m3r-2frp, RHSA-2025:16345, RHSA-2025:16346.