Red Hat Security Advisory: A Subscription Management tool for finding and reporting Red Hat product usage
Red Hat Discovery is a tool used to inspect and report environment data such as system counts, operating systems, and configuration details within a network. Multiple vulnerabilities identified by CVE-2025-5914 and related CVEs affect this tool. The advisory does not provide details on exploitation or impact beyond the identification of these vulnerabilities. No official fix or patch is currently available according to the vendor advisory. The tool is not a cloud service, so remediation depends on vendor updates. The severity is assessed as high based on the advisory classification, but no CVSS score is provided.
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Technical Summary
Red Hat Discovery is a subscription management and environment inspection tool that collects and reports data about physical and virtual systems and Red Hat product usage within a network. The advisory references four CVEs (CVE-2025-5914, CVE-2025-6020, CVE-2025-8194, CVE-2025-8941) affecting this tool. The vulnerabilities are associated with CWEs including integer overflow (CWE-190), path traversal (CWE-22), and timing issues (CWE-835). The vendor advisory (RHSA-2025:16524) does not mention any available patches or fixes at this time. The advisory provides installation instructions for the discovery-installer RPM but no remediation for the vulnerabilities. No known exploits in the wild have been reported.
Potential Impact
The impact is classified as high severity by Red Hat Product Security, indicating significant potential risk if exploited. However, no specific exploitation details or impact scenarios are provided. The vulnerabilities could potentially allow manipulation or incorrect reporting of environment data, but this is not explicitly stated. No known active exploitation has been reported.
Mitigation Recommendations
Currently, no official fix or patch is available for these vulnerabilities as per the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:16524. Users should monitor Red Hat's official channels for updates and apply any future patches promptly. The advisory does not indicate that any workaround or temporary mitigation is available or required at this time.
Red Hat Security Advisory: A Subscription Management tool for finding and reporting Red Hat product usage
Description
Red Hat Discovery is a tool used to inspect and report environment data such as system counts, operating systems, and configuration details within a network. Multiple vulnerabilities identified by CVE-2025-5914 and related CVEs affect this tool. The advisory does not provide details on exploitation or impact beyond the identification of these vulnerabilities. No official fix or patch is currently available according to the vendor advisory. The tool is not a cloud service, so remediation depends on vendor updates. The severity is assessed as high based on the advisory classification, but no CVSS score is provided.
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Technical Analysis
Red Hat Discovery is a subscription management and environment inspection tool that collects and reports data about physical and virtual systems and Red Hat product usage within a network. The advisory references four CVEs (CVE-2025-5914, CVE-2025-6020, CVE-2025-8194, CVE-2025-8941) affecting this tool. The vulnerabilities are associated with CWEs including integer overflow (CWE-190), path traversal (CWE-22), and timing issues (CWE-835). The vendor advisory (RHSA-2025:16524) does not mention any available patches or fixes at this time. The advisory provides installation instructions for the discovery-installer RPM but no remediation for the vulnerabilities. No known exploits in the wild have been reported.
Potential Impact
The impact is classified as high severity by Red Hat Product Security, indicating significant potential risk if exploited. However, no specific exploitation details or impact scenarios are provided. The vulnerabilities could potentially allow manipulation or incorrect reporting of environment data, but this is not explicitly stated. No known active exploitation has been reported.
Mitigation Recommendations
Currently, no official fix or patch is available for these vulnerabilities as per the Red Hat advisory RHSA-2025:16524. Users should monitor Red Hat's official channels for updates and apply any future patches promptly. The advisory does not indicate that any workaround or temporary mitigation is available or required at this time.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:16524
- Cve Count
- 4
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2025-6020","CVE-2025-8194","CVE-2025-8941"]
- Cvss Version
- null
Threat ID: 6a1f4e87e29bf47b5007ff1d
Added to database: 6/2/2026, 9:43:35 PM
Last enriched: 6/2/2026, 10:03:54 PM
Last updated: 6/3/2026, 5:01:06 AM
Views: 2
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