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Uncontrolled Resource ConsumptionWeakness · CWE-400

CVE-2025-25208

MEDIUM · 5.7 CVSS v3.1 Published 2025-06-09
Mitigation only
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61/100
Remediation priority · Elevated
Remotely reachable

Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

NVD · unedited
A Developer persona can bring down the Authorino service, preventing the evaluation of all AuthPolicies on the cluster

Technical summary Written by usOur analysis, written from the advisory, the CVSS vector and the affected-version data. It adds context the advisory leaves out, and never invents facts that are not in the source.

dbcve analysis · moderate confidence

A denial of service vulnerability in Authorino allows any user with Developer persona permissions to crash the Authorino service, which results in all AuthPolicies across the cluster not being evaluated. This effectively disables authorization for protected resources.

MitigationApply the vendor patch when available and restrict Developer persona permissions until the fix is deployed. Consider implementing redundancy or fallback authorization mechanisms for critical workloads.

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From the vector
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

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

Am I affected? How to checkSteps we derive from the advisory and the affected-version data, so you can decide whether this CVE reaches your setup. They are a guide, not a scan — your own configuration is the authority.

dbcve checks

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  1. Identify installed Authorino version
    Run 'kubectl get deployments -A -o jsonpath="{.items[?(@.spec.template.spec.containers[*].name=="authorino")].spec.template.spec.containers[?(@.name=="authorino")].image}"' or check the Authorino operator version via 'kubectl get authorino -A -o yaml'
    Affected if Version is unknown, unpatched, or older than the fixed release containing the CVE patch
  2. Verify Developer persona is available
    Check cluster RBAC settings for any role or cluster-role granting Developer persona permissions: 'kubectl get clusterrole -o yaml | grep -i developer' or review Authorino's CEL fields for identity definitions referencing persona type 'DEVELOPER'
    Affected if Developer persona permissions exist in the cluster configuration
  3. Confirm AuthPolicies are deployed
    Run 'kubectl get authpolicies -A' to list all authorization policies managed by Authorino
    Affected if Any AuthPolicy resources exist in the cluster; their evaluation would be impacted by a service crash
  4. Check Authorino service health status
    Run 'kubectl get pods -A -l app=authorino -o wide' and verify all Authorino pods report Ready status with all containers healthy
    Affected if Authorino pods are in a CrashLoopBackOff state or report as unhealthy, indicating a potential exploit has occurred

The environment is affected if Developer persona permissions are present and the installed Authorino version lacks the CVE-2025-25208 patch, allowing a denial of service that halts all AuthPolicy evaluations.

Generated from the published advisory. Verify against your own configuration.

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From vendor data
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Mitigation

Apply the vendor patch when available and restrict Developer persona permissions until the fix is deployed. Consider implementing redundancy or fallback authorization mechanisms for critical workloads.

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