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CVE-2025-8904

CRITICAL
INFO Priority: 0.04 BB Relevance: 58/100
Published: 2025-08-13 Modified: 2026-11-04 First seen: 2026-11-03 Status: active

Attack Surface

Network No Interaction Conf. Impact Integ. Impact

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Network
AC: High
PR: Low
UI: None
AT: Present
VC: High
VI: High
VA: High

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.

Weakness Classification (1)

Affected Software (2)

VendorProductVersion
Amazon EMR 6.10 < 7.4
Amazon EMR 6.10 < 7.4

References & Advisories (3)

Bug Bounty Relevance

58 / 100
✓ Network accessible
✓ No user interaction

CVSS Score

9.0 / 10.0 v4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H

EPSS — Exploitation Probability

0.41%
Raw Score 0.004150
Percentile 36.4%
Date 2026-11-14

EPSS Trend

2026-11-14
0.00415
2026-11-13
0.00387
2026-11-12
0.00387
2026-11-10
0.00387
2026-11-09
0.00387
2026-11-08
0.00387
2026-11-07
0.00387
2026-11-06
0.00387
2026-11-05
0.00387
2026-11-04
0.00387
2026-11-03
0.00387

Intelligence Sources

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