CVE-2025-14986 (GCVE-0-2025-14986)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-30 20:17 – Updated: 2026-01-02 15:31
VLAI
Title
ExecuteMultiOperation Namespace Policy Bypass
Summary
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Severity
1.3 (Low)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/S:N/AU:Y/R:U/RE:L/U:Green
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-01-02 15:30 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-863 - Incorrect Authorization
Assigner
Temporal CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard A 97/100 over 13 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Temporal Temporal Affected: 1.24.0 , ≤ 1.29.1 (semver)
Affected: 1.24.0 , ≤ 1.28.1 (semver)
Affected: 1.24.0 , ≤ 1.27.3 (semver)
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