TI-2025-08151 Aliases CVE-2025-8904 GHSA-hf8h-76fm-735v

Privilege escalation issue in Amazon EMR Secret Agent component

MEDIUM 41CWE-257Published 2025-08-13 · Updated 2026-11-04

Key facts

Attack vector: Network
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: High
Attack requirements: Present
Impact type: —
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.

Summary

Amazon EMR Secret Agent creates a keytab file containing Kerberos credentials. This file is stored in the /tmp/ directory. A user with access to this directory and another account can potentially decrypt the keys and escalate to higher privileges. Users are advised to upgrade to Amazon EMR version 7.5 or higher. For Amazon EMR releases between 6.10 and 7.4, we strongly recommend that you run the bootstrap script and RPM files with the fix provided in the location below.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00387 32nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed EMR (Amazon): 7.4

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

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
AWS	EMR	6.10 to before 7.4	7.4	Patch available	CNA

EMR VendorAWS Affected 6.10 to before 7.4 Fixed in 7.4 Patch available CNA

Remediation

Fix · CNA EMR (Amazon) Fixed in 7.4

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-8904
2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-hf8h-76fm-735v

References

Patch 1

https://docs.aws.amazon.com/emr/latest/ReleaseGuide/emr-750-release.html

Advisory 2

TI-2026-23989 crypto: algif_aead - Revert to operating out-of-place KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
TI-2024-18648 Amazon AWS Amplify CLI before 12.10.1 incorrectly configures the role trust policy of IAM… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2024-05929 Openssh: regresshion - race condition in ssh allows rce/dos CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1
TI-2025-03847 Input validation issue in AWS Amplify Studio UI component properties CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.0
TI-2026-11603 HTTP/2 Stream Parser Confusion Body-Inspection Bypass in Amazon CloudFront with AWS WAF CVSS 4.0HIGH 7.9

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Sources

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