Security Bulletin
Summary
IBM Cloud Red Hat Openshift AI Addon is affected by a security vulnerability in the Red Hat Openshift AI operator. 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.
Vulnerability Details
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.
CWE: CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment
CVSS Base Score: 9.9
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Products and Versions
IBM Cloud Red Hat Openshift AI Addon 4.17.0.0_533
Remediation/Fixes
The fixes 4.16.3.0_671 and 4.17.0.2_672, released 7th October 2025, will be applied to customers' clusters automatically, if the customer has set the InstallPlanApproval to Automatic.
If the customer has set the InstallPlanApproval to Manual then the install plan must be approved to apply the fix.
To verify your cluster is no longer exposed to vulnerability run
oc describe subs -n redhat-ods-operator rhods-operator
Current CSV and Installed CSV is showing rhods-operator.2.22.2 then you are no longer exposed to the vulnerability.Workarounds and Mitigations
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2025-10725#cve-details-mitigation
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References
*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.
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Document Location
Worldwide
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Document Information
Modified date:
22 October 2025
UID
ibm17247187