What is CVE-2025-12548?

CVE-2025-12548 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Dev Spaces (Rhosds) 3.22, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2026-01-13.

How severe is CVE-2025-12548?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.

Is CVE-2025-12548 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Auth bypass in Red Hat Openshift Dev Spaces (Rhosds) 3.22

CVE-2025-12548

A flaw was found in Eclipse Che che-machine-exec. This vulnerability allows unauthenticated remote arbitrary command execution and secret exfiltration (SSH keys, tokens, etc.) from other users' Developer Workspace containers, via an unauthenticated JSON-RPC / websocket API exposed on TCP port 3333.

Vulnerability class: Broken Authentication

Published 2026-01-13 · last modified 2026-09-21.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.0 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.013 (69.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 70th percentile — 69.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.012 · newest: 0.013 · change: +0.001

Affected products

Red Hat Openshift Dev Spaces (Rhosds) 3.22 — versions sha256:3de7dd8077a9201eb7ff56c340629184773d6c06de9d6e083e13c5b51a82009c
Red Hat Openshift Dev Spaces (Rhosds) 3.23 — versions sha256:a6fe7e233fa23e1fff9c74c5d4cbe800534561131b5be59533e88ede24452e3a
Red Hat Openshift Dev Spaces (Rhosds) 3.24 — versions sha256:ced0e45c01cb5f473deb4fb137249b743b907d27172fbabd223024c4000ba56f

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-306 — Missing Authentication for Critical Function

Public proof-of-concept exploits

rapid7/metasploit-framework

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22620 (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22623 (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22652 (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-12548 (vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (issue-tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-12548?: CVE-2025-12548 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Openshift Dev Spaces (Rhosds) 3.22, classified under Missing Authentication for Critical Function. CVSS score: 9.0/10. Published 2026-01-13.
How severe is CVE-2025-12548?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.0 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-12548 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.