# CVE-2025-4374: Quay: incorrect privilege assignment

> CVE-2025-4374: Quay: incorrect privilege assignment. CVSS 6.5 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-4374
Last updated: 2026-08-07T14:16:53Z

- Published: 2025-05-06 14:49 UTC · Updated: 2026-08-07 14:16 UTC · Assigner: redhat
- CVSS: 6.5 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- EPSS: 0.34%, 27th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-266

## Description

A flaw was found in Quay. When an organization acts as a proxy cache, and a user or robot pulls an image that hasn't been mirrored yet, they are granted "Admin" permissions on the newly created repository.

## Affected vendors and products

- Project Quay: quay
- Red Hat: Red Hat Quay 3

## Tracked companies

- [Red Hat (incl. Quay.io)](https://rewindex.com/company/red-hat.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-4374)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-4374)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8262](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8262)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8263](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8263)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8687](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8687)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8688](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:8688)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4374](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-4374)
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2364267](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2364267)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-4374 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-4374.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-4374 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:09:05.544Z