Vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVE-2025-5962

A flaw was found in the Lightspeed history service. Insufficient access controls allow a local, unprivileged user to access and manipulate the chat history of another user on the same system. By abusing inter-process communication calls to the history service, an attacker can view, delete, or inject arbitrary history entries, including misleading or malicious commands. This can be used to deceive another user into executing harmful actions, posing a risk of privilege misuse or unauthorized command execution through social engineering.

EPSS: 0.002 (12.1th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.7 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-5962?
CVE-2025-5962 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 7.7/10. Published 2025-09-22.
How severe is CVE-2025-5962?
High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2025-5962 known to be exploited?
1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.