What is CVE-2025-62877?

CVE-2025-62877 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Suse Harvester, classified under Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-01-08.

How severe is CVE-2025-62877?

Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.

RCE in Suse Harvester

CVE-2025-62877

Projects using the SUSE Virtualization (Harvester) environment may expose the OS default ssh login password if they are using the 1.5.x or 1.6.x interactive installer to either create a new cluster or add new hosts to an existing cluster…

EPSS: 0.005 (37.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.8 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Suse Harvester — versions 1.6.0, 1.5.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1188 — Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default

References

meissner@suse.de
meissner@suse.de

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-62877?: CVE-2025-62877 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Suse Harvester, classified under Initialization of a Resource with an Insecure Default. CVSS score: 9.8/10. Published 2026-01-08.
How severe is CVE-2025-62877?: Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.8 out of 10.