CVE-2026-25598

medium Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
4.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 96% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
Low
Availability
None
Published: February 9, 2026 (94 days ago)
Last Modified: February 9, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat

Description

Harden-Runner is a CI/CD security agent that works like an EDR for GitHub Actions runners. Prior to 2.14.2, a security vulnerability has been identified in the Harden-Runner GitHub Action (Community Tier) that allows outbound network connections to evade audit logging. Specifically, outbound traffic using the sendto, sendmsg, and sendmmsg socket system calls can bypass detection and logging when using egress-policy: audit. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.14.2.

CWE

CWE-778

Affected Products

External Secrets Operator for Red Hat OpenShiftGatekeeper 3Multicluster Engine for KubernetesOpenShift PipelinesRed Hat OpenShift for Windows Containers

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov 🔗 github.com 🔗 github.com