CVE-2025-54558 (GCVE-0-2025-54558)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-07-25 00:00 – Updated: 2025-07-25 13:23
VLAI
Summary
OpenAI Codex CLI before 0.9.0 auto-approves ripgrep (aka rg) execution even with the --pre or --hostname-bin or --search-zip or -z flag.
Severity
4.1 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-07-25 13:23 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-829 - Inclusion of Functionality from Untrusted Control Sphere
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
OpenAI Codex CLI Affected: 0 , < 0.9.0 (semver)
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