CVE-2025-14821 – Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

CVSS 7.8 IMPORTANT

“A trusted operating system weakness can quietly elevate an attacker’s reach.”

This patch addresses a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 that could allow attackers to escalate privileges on affected systems. As a core enterprise operating system, any privilege escalation issue introduces risk to system integrity, access controls, and sensitive workloads running on the platform.

CVE-2025-14821 has a CVSS score of 7.8, which is High severity. This indicates a strong potential for impact, especially in environments where local or limited access can be leveraged to gain elevated permissions.

No verified exploitation or public proof-of-concept activity has been confirmed for this vulnerability.

Key Details

Affected Product
Libssh Libssh
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
CWE Classification
CWE-427
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