FKIE_CVE-2025-62877

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-01-08 13:15 - Updated: 2026-09-30 23:10
Severity
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
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.
References
meissner@suse.dehttps://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2025-62877
meissner@suse.dehttps://github.com/harvester/harvester/security/advisories/GHSA-6g8q-hp2j-gvwv
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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  "lastModified": "2026-09-30T23:10:00.237",
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