9.0
Critical
CVE-2025-8904 Privilege escalation issue in Amazon EMR Secret Agent component
Description
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.
CVSS 4.0 detail
Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:HExploitable remotely over the network, with an ordinary account and without any user action; an attacker can seriously compromise confidentiality, integrity or availability.
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Privileges required
- Low
- Interaction
- None
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
- Confidentiality of other systems
- High
- Integrity of other systems
- High
- Availability of other systems
- High
Affected products and versions
| Product | Affected versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| EMR 6.10 | 6.10 → < 7.4 | 7.4 |