CVE-2025-8904HIGH 8.5EPSS p22.3%
CVE-2025-8904CVE-2025-8904
Description
Amazon EMR Secret Agent creates a keytab file containing Kerberos credentials. This file is stored in the /tmp/ directory. A user with access to this directory and another account can potentially decrypt the keys and escalate to higher privileges.
Users are advised to upgrade to Amazon EMR version 7.5 or higher. For Amazon EMR releases between 6.10 and 7.4, we strongly recommend that you run the bootstrap script and RPM files with the fix provided in the location below.
Scoring
| CVSS 3.1 | 8.5 (HIGH) |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 0.31% probability of exploitation · percentile 22.3% · 2026-06-19T12:03:05Z |
| Published | 2025-08-13 |
| Last modified | 2026-04-15 |
Underlying weaknesses· 1
References
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| Type | Target | Confidence | Tier |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weakness | Storing Passwords in a Recoverable Formatcwe-257 | 0% | live |
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