Bluechi: privilege escalation in bluechi via unrestricted cross-node systemd dependencies
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.2epss 0.2%
exploitation probability
0.2%top 89% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A vulnerability was found in BlueChi, a multi-node systemd service controller used in RHIVOS. This flaw allows a user with root privileges on a managed node (qm) to create or override systemd service unit files that affect the host node. This issue can lead to privilege escalation, unauthorized service execution, and potential system compromise.
CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Eclipse Foundation · BlueChiReferences
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2515https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2353313https://github.com/eclipse-bluechi/bluechi/commit/fe0d28301ce2bd45f0b1d8a98a94efef799fbc73#diff-64140c83db42a8888f346a40de293b80f79ebf7d75ce4137b22567e360bce607https://github.com/eclipse-bluechi/bluechi/issues/1069https://github.com/eclipse-bluechi/bluechi/pull/1073