What is CVE-2025-54558?

CVE-2025-54558 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openai Codex Cli, classified under Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere. CVSS score: 4.1/10. Published 2025-07-25.

How severe is CVE-2025-54558?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.1 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Openai Codex Cli

CVE-2025-54558

OpenAI Codex CLI before 0.9.0 auto-approves ripgrep (aka rg) execution even with the --pre or --hostname-bin or --search-zip or -z flag.

Published 2025-07-25 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.1 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.002 (8.2th percentile), scored 2026-10-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 8th percentile — 8.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.002 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000

Affected products

Openai Codex Cli — versions 0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-829 — Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-54558?: CVE-2025-54558 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Openai Codex Cli, classified under Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere. CVSS score: 4.1/10. Published 2025-07-25.
How severe is CVE-2025-54558?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.1 out of 10.