CVE-2025-54558

MEDIUM
4.1
CVSS Score
Published: July 25, 2025 at 12:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 09:40 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorCodex CLI

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Severity
MEDIUM4.1
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%
SSVC
No known exploit

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

v < 0.9.0
Affected range stops below 0.9.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

4.1MEDIUMmitre
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusDEFERRED
CWE
CWE-829

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