Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/10 Lightspeed History Service access control

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A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/10. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Lightspeed History Service. Executing a manipulation can lead to access control. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-5962. It is possible to launch the attack on the local host. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9/10. This vulnerability affects an unknown part of the component Lightspeed History Service. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-284. The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-5962 since 06/10/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 09/24/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1068.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 265730 (RHEL 10 : command-line-assistant (RHSA-2025:16345)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (265730). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Operating System

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• Red Hat

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• Enterprise Linux

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• 9
• 10

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• commercial

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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