Rhel-lightspeed: improper access control in lightspeed history management allows local privilege manipulation
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Local
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Security bypass
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-284.
Summary
A flaw was found in the Lightspeed history service. Insufficient access controls allow a local, unprivileged user to access and manipulate the chat history of another user on the same system. By abusing inter-process communication calls to the history service, an attacker can view, delete, or inject arbitrary history entries, including misleading or malicious commands. This can be used to deceive another user into executing harmful actions, posing a risk of privilege misuse or unauthorized command execution through social engineering.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
Red Hat 2 advisories
- RHSA-2025:16346 Released 2025-09-22 · Red Hat rating Moderatecommand-line-assistant security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) command-line-assistant-0.3.1-6.el9_6, command-line-assistant-selinux-0.3.1-6.el9_6
- RHSA-2025:16345 Released 2025-09-22 · Red Hat rating Moderatecommand-line-assistant security update
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) command-line-assistant-0.3.1-6.el10_0, command-line-assistant-selinux-0.3.1-6.el10_0
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 10) | Fixed | RHSA-2025:16345 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) | Fixed | RHSA-2025:16346 |
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-5962
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3c94-6m3r-2frp
References
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Sources
- CVE-2025-5962 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-5962 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3c94-6m3r-2frp · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-5962 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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