CVE-2025-12744: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (exact versions not specified); +2 more affected products

CVE-2025-12744. CVSS 3.1 base score 8.8 (HIGH, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00639 (percentile 0.49582), scored 17-Oct-2026.

Affected technology

Product not specified by the source · 0 to before 2.17.7
Vendor not specified by the source

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Description’s affected range: up to 12 characters from an untrusted input and places them directly into a shell command (docker inspect

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 3.1): Local · Low privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

An unprivileged local user can craft a payload that injects shell metacharacters, causing the root-running ABRT process to execute attacker-controlled commands and ultimately gain full root privileges. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 8.8/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high.

Published 18-Oct-2026 17:26 UTC

CWE: CWE-78
CCR priority: 35.4 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 8.8 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H · Vendor/CNA
EPSS: 0.00639 · percentile 0.49582 · 2026-10-17
KEV: no

Provenance

NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-18 17:25:50.801280+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-12744.html