CVE-2025-2241: Red Hat Multicluster Engine For Kubernetes

High severity, CVSS 8.2. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Multicluster Engine For Kubernetes
• Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes 2

Published 2025-03-17. Last modified 2026-08-21.