Vulnerability details

CVE-2025-62877

SUSE Harvester

Harvest may expose OS default ssh login password via SUSE Virtualization Interactive Installer

CVSS 3.1
9.8Critical

Official description

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. The environment is not affected if the PXE boot mechanism is utilized along with the Harvester configuration setup.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.8Critical 3.1 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (suse) CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
SUSE Harvester 1.5.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
SUSE Harvester 1.6.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

2
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Details

Published
2026-01-08
Last updated
2026-01-08
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
suse

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.51%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
44%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
Yes
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

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