Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
CVE-2025-2586 lets an unauthenticated party flood OpenShift Lightspeed Service with requests to invalid endpoints. The main impact is availability: metrics storage and processing can grow until CPU, memory, or disk pressure degrades monitoring or service stability.
Executive priority
Treat as a high-priority availability risk for OpenShift environments using Lightspeed. Focus first on externally reachable or shared clusters, because unauthenticated traffic can degrade monitoring and potentially affect cluster stability.
Technical view
The issue is CWE-400 resource consumption in OpenShift Lightspeed Service. Repeated unauthenticated API requests to non-existent endpoints inflate metrics workload and storage, causing excessive CPU, RAM, and disk usage. CVSS 3.1 is 7.5: network-accessible, low complexity, no privileges, no user interaction, availability-only impact.
Likely exposure
Organizations using Red Hat OpenShift Lightspeed, specifically the lightspeed-service API package referenced by Red Hat, should assess exposure. The source bundle does not provide complete affected version ranges, and default status is listed as unaffected, so asset-level verification against Red Hat guidance is required.
Exploitation context
No active exploitation is stated in the provided sources, and the CVE is not listed as KEV in the bundle. Exploitation would require network reachability to the vulnerable API surface, but not authentication, which increases concern for exposed or weakly restricted deployments.
Researcher notes
Evidence supports a resource-exhaustion flaw, but public details in the bundle do not define exact affected versions, fixed versions, or confirmed exploitation. Avoid assuming broader OpenShift impact beyond OpenShift Lightspeed Service unless Red Hat guidance confirms it.
Mitigation direction
- Check Red Hat CVE guidance and the upstream pull request for applicable fixes.
- Restrict OpenShift Lightspeed API exposure to trusted networks where operationally feasible.
- Use ingress, route, or gateway controls to reduce unauthenticated request volume.
- Monitor and alert on abnormal metrics storage growth and resource consumption.
- Prioritize update or configuration changes once Red Hat confirms remediation details.
Validation and detection
- Identify clusters running OpenShift Lightspeed or lightspeed-service API components.
- Confirm whether the service is reachable without authentication from untrusted networks.
- Review metrics storage growth, disk usage, CPU, and memory trends.
- Look for high volumes of requests to non-existent endpoints.
- Compare installed package state against Red Hat advisory and repository guidance.
Public sources used
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Open ATT&CK lookup- Severity
- High
- CVSS
- 7.5 (3.1)
- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H3.93.6redhatVulnerability scoring details
Base CVSS 3.1 score
7.5HighVector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Vulnerability timeline
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Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2586CVE reference, redhat · vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2353998CVE reference, redhat · issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
- https://github.com/openshift/lightspeed-service/pull/2369CVE reference, redhat
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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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