Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-69902

CriticalRCE

Published: 16 March 2026

Published
16 March 2026
Modified
27 April 2026
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0206 78.8th percentile
Risk Priority 70 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-69902 is a critical-severity Code Injection (CWE-94) vulnerability in Ahnlab (inferred from references). Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, exploitation aligns with the MITRE ATT&CK technique Exploit Public-Facing Application (T1190); ranked in the top 21.2% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

This vulnerability is AI-related — categorised as AI Agent Protocols and Integrations; in the Protocol-Specific Risks risk domain.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified are NIST 800-53 SI-10 (Information Input Validation) and SI-2 (Flaw Remediation).

Deeper analysis

CVE-2025-69902 is a command injection vulnerability in the minimal_wrapper.py component of kubectl-mcp-server version 1.2.0. The flaw allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters. It carries a CVSS v3.1 base score of 9.8 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H) and is classified under CWE-94 (Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')).

The vulnerability enables remote exploitation over the network with low attack complexity, requiring no privileges or user interaction and maintaining an unchanged scope. Attackers can achieve high-impact effects on confidentiality, integrity, and availability through arbitrary command execution on affected systems.

Mitigation details are available in advisories and project resources, including the AhnLab security advisory at https://asec.ahnlab.com/ko/92922/, the GitHub repository at https://github.com/rohitg00/kubectl-mcp-server, the vulnerable source file at https://github.com/rohitg00/kubectl-mcp-server/blob/main/kubectl_mcp_tool/minimal_wrapper.py, and the PyPI package page for kubectl-mcp-tool at https://pypi.org/project/kubectl-mcp-tool.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A command injection vulnerability in the minimal_wrapper.py component of kubectl-mcp-server v1.2.0 allows attackers to execute arbitrary commands via injecting arbitrary shell metacharacters.

CWE(s)

AI Security AnalysisAI

AI Category
AI Agent Protocols and Integrations
Risk Domain
Protocol-Specific Risks
OWASP Top 10 for LLMs 2025
None mapped
Classification Reason
Matched keywords: mcp

Related Threats

MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise TechniquesAI

T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application Initial Access
Adversaries may attempt to exploit a weakness in an Internet-facing host or system to initially access a network.
T1059.004 Unix Shell Execution
Adversaries may abuse Unix shell commands and scripts for execution.
Why these techniques?

Command injection in a remote server component (kubectl-mcp-server) enables unauthenticated remote code execution via public-facing application exploitation (T1190) and arbitrary Unix shell command execution (T1059.004).

Confidence: HIGH · MITRE ATT&CK Enterprise v19.0

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Affected Assets

Ahnlab
inferred from references and description; NVD did not file a CPE for this CVE

Mitigating Controls

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

SI-10 requires input validation at entry points, directly preventing injection of shell metacharacters into commands executed by minimal_wrapper.py.

prevent

SI-2 mandates timely identification, reporting, and correction of flaws like CVE-2025-69902 to eliminate the command injection vulnerability.

detect

RA-5 provides vulnerability scanning to detect the presence of CVE-2025-69902 in kubectl-mcp-server deployments.

References