CVE-2025-25208 | Rhcl: authorino denial of service through authpolicy with sharedsecretref severity

A Developer persona can bring down the Authorino service, preventing the evaluation of all AuthPolicies on the cluster

Published: 2025-06-09 Last update: 2026-04-15 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-25208 is rated Low Risk (27.8/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.05%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2025-25208

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-05-22 0.30% 0.05% -0.25%
2 2026-04-05 0.06% 0.30% +0.24%
3 2026-02-23 0.06%

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2025-25208

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.7 3.1 MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H Click to expand
Attack vector (AV:N)
Could be attacked over the internet or any normal routed network—not just someone sitting at the machine.
Attack complexity (AC:L)
Once they can reach the bug, pulling it off is straightforward—no weird race conditions or rare setup.
Privileges required (PR:L)
A normal user session is enough; they don’t have to be admin.
User interaction (UI:R)
A real person has to do something—click, install, enable—otherwise it doesn’t land.
Scope (S:U)
Damage stays in the same “trust bubble” as the broken component—no big spill into unrelated systems.
Confidentiality (C:N)
Doesn’t really leak secrets in a meaningful way.
Integrity (I:N)
Data isn’t meaningfully altered or forged.
Availability (A:H)
Could take the service down hard or make it unusable for people who depend on it.
2.1 3.6 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2025-25208

GitHub Security Advisory for CVE-2025-25208

GHSA-vqvv-2wj5-q34w · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — Authorino Uncontrolled Resource Consumption vulnerability

OS Trackers for CVE-2025-25208

vendor priority summary link
redhat medium https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-25208

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2025-25208

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
No affected products in dataset.

References for CVE-2025-25208

cvelogic Threat Intelligence