Who wouldn't want root access on cluster master nodes?
October 1, 2025 By Jessica Lyons
A 9.9 out of 10 severity bug in Red Hat's OpenShift AI service could allow a remote attacker with minimal authentication to steal data, disrupt services, and fully hijack the platform.
"A low-privileged attacker with access to an authenticated account, for example as a data scientist using a standard Jupyter notebook, can escalate their privileges to a full cluster administrator," the IBM subsidiary warned in a security alert published earlier this week.
"This allows for the complete compromise of the cluster's confidentiality, integrity, and availability," the alert continues. "The attacker can steal sensitive data, disrupt all services, and take control of the underlying infrastructure, leading to a total breach of the platform and all applications hosted on it."
Red Hat deemed the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-10725, "important" despite its 9.9 CVSS score, which garners a critical-severity rating from the National Vulnerability Database - and basically any other organization that issues CVEs. This, the vendor explained, is because the flaw requires some level of authentication, albeit minimal, for an attacker to jeopardize the hybrid cloud environment.
