Vulnerability · Published Jul 25, 2025 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2025-54558
Medium 4.1
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in Codex CLI from OpenAI. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 13% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.1Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.6% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
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.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-829 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N