Upstream information

CVE-2025-2241 at MITRE

Description

A flaw was found in Hive, a component of Multicluster Engine (MCE) and Advanced Cluster Management (ACM). This vulnerability causes VCenter credentials to be exposed in the ClusterProvision object after provisioning a VSphere cluster. Users with read access to ClusterProvision objects can extract sensitive credentials even if they do not have direct access to Kubernetes Secrets. This issue can lead to unauthorized VCenter access, cluster management, and privilege escalation.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
CVSS detail CNA (Red Hat)
Base Score 8.2
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction None
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact High
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
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List of released packages

Product(s) Fixed package version(s) References
Image SLE-Micro
Image SLE-Micro-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-Azure
Image SLE-Micro-BYOS-EC2
Image SLE-Micro-EC2
  • cloud-init >= 25.1.3-slfo.1.1_1.1
  • cloud-init-config-suse >= 25.1.3-slfo.1.1_1.1
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
 Patchnames:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.0 GA govulncheck-vulndb-0.0.20250814T182633-160000.1.2
openSUSE Tumbleweed
  • govulncheck-vulndb >= 0.0.20250318T181448-1.1
 Patchnames:
openSUSE-Tumbleweed-2025-14910

Status of this issue by product and package

Please note that this evaluation state might be work in progress, incomplete or outdated. Also information for service packs in the LTSS phase is only included for issues meeting the LTSS criteria. If in doubt, feel free to contact us for clarification. The updates are grouped by state of their lifecycle. SUSE product lifecycles are documented on the lifecycle page.

Product(s) Source package State
Products under general support and receiving all security fixes.
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Affected
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP applications 16.1 govulncheck-vulndb Affected

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Mon Mar 17 18:02:05 2025
CVE page last modified: Mon May 11 14:24:08 2026