CVE-2025-8904

Published: Aug 13, 2025

Modified: Feb 26, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

8.5

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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Amazon	EMR	affected `6.10 - < 7.4`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-257

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

References

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-750-release.html

release-notes

patch

https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2025-017/

vendor-advisory

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hf8h-76fm-735v

third-party-advisory

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CVE-2025-8904

Description

Affected Products

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

References