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CVE-2025-62593: Ray Dashboard Jobs RCE Remediation

Critical CVSS 9.4 CISA KEV

Remediation summary

Recommended action
CVE-2025-62593 is a critical Ray dashboard jobs RCE reachable from Firefox and Safari. Upgrade to 2.52.0+, enable token auth, and keep port 8265 off untrusted networks.
Affected evidence
1 source affected-product statement
Priority
Known exploited (CISA KEV); Critical severity; CVSS 9.4
Evidence checked

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What is CVE-2025-62593?

Ray is an AI compute engine. Prior to version 2.52.0, developers working with Ray as a development tool can be exploited via a critical RCE vulnerability exploitable via Firefox and Safari. This vulnerability is due to an insufficient guard against browser-based attacks, as the current defense uses the User-Agent header starting with the string "Mozilla" as a defense mechanism. This defense is insufficient as the fetch specification allows the User-Agent header to be modified. Combined with a DNS rebinding attack against the browser, and this vulnerability is exploitable against a developer running Ray who inadvertently visits a malicious website, or is served a malicious advertisement (malvertising). This issue has been patched in version 2.52.0.

CVE
CVE-2025-62593
Source title
Ray-Project Ray Code Injection Vulnerability
Severity
Critical
CVSS
9.4 (4.0)
CVSS vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CVE published
2025-11-26
Source updated
2026-08-18T04:16:40Z
Catalog checked
2026-08-24T07:01:48Z
CISA KEV
Known exploited
Ecosystem
browser
Weaknesses
CWE-94, CWE-352
CNA / source
security-advisories@github.com
Record status
Analyzed
Catalog quality
curated

Known exploitation and required action

CISA lists CVE-2025-62593 in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. Treat this as direct exploitation evidence when prioritizing the change.

CISA entry
Ray-Project Ray Code Injection Vulnerability
Vendor / project
Ray-Project
Product
Ray
Date added
2026-08-17
CISA due date
2026-08-20
Known ransomware use
Unknown

CISA required action

Apply mitigations in accordance with vendor instructions, ensuring compliance with CISA’s BOD 26-04 Prioritizing Security Updates Based on Risk (see URL in Notes) guidance and CISA’s “Forensics Triage Requirements” (see URL in Notes). Follow applicable BOD 26-04 guidance for cloud services or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable. Stakeholders are responsible for evaluating each asset's internet exposure and ensuring adherence to BOD 26-04 patching guidelines.

The recorded CISA due date is a remediation deadline for covered U.S. federal agencies; other organizations can use it as an urgency signal.

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Stable, source-backed guidance

CVE-2025-62593: Ray Dashboard Jobs RCE Remediation

This product-specific workflow preserves source-linked remediation guidance for CVE-2025-62593. Confirm live vendor guidance before changing production.

Ray versions before 2.52.0 expose the jobs API on the dashboard (default port 8265) without authentication. A User-Agent prefix check that rejects strings starting with Mozilla is not a security boundary: Firefox and Safari allow fetch to set User-Agent. Combined with DNS rebinding, a malicious page or advertisement can submit a job to a developer workstation or an adjacent cluster and run arbitrary commands.

CISA added CVE-2025-62593 to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-08-17 (required action due 2026-08-20). Ray 2.52.0 also adds disabled-by-default token authentication; turn that on for any shared or networked cluster. Do not prove exposure by submitting jobs, changing User-Agent, or running rebinding tools.

When to use it

  • A repository installs, images, or launches Ray below 2.52.0.
  • Developers run ray start --head or a dashboard on port 8265 on laptops, workbenches, or shared clusters.
  • You need a bounded PR that upgrades Ray, enables token auth, and keeps the dashboard off untrusted networks.

Inputs

  • Python dependency files, lockfiles, Dockerfiles, compose/Helm/K8s manifests, launch scripts, dashboard/ingress config, SBOMs, and runbooks.
  • Ray version evidence, dashboard bind address, token-auth setting, and credential owners.
  • Available dependency install, policy tests, container build, and security scans.

Affected versions

  • Vulnerable: ray < 2.52.0
  • Fixed: ray 2.52.0+
  • Affected surface: dashboard jobs routes such as /api/jobs and /api/job_agent/jobs/ on the default dashboard port 8265.
  • Weaknesses: CWE-94 code injection and CWE-352 CSRF / confused-deputy browser access. The User-Agent heuristic is not a fix.
  • CISA KEV: yes; added 2026-08-17 with required action due 2026-08-20.

Indicator-of-exposure

  • Ray resolves below 2.52.0.
  • A dashboard or jobs API listens on 8265 (or a forwarded equivalent) and is reachable from a browser-capable network.
  • Token authentication is disabled or unset.

Quick checks:

rg -n "ray|RAY_|8265|/api/jobs|token.auth|RAY_AUTH" .
python -m pip show ray
python -m pip freeze | rg -i "^ray=="

Windows:

rg -n "ray|RAY_|8265|/api/jobs|token.auth|RAY_AUTH" .
python -m pip show ray
python -m pip freeze | rg -i "^ray=="

Do not open the dashboard from an untrusted page, submit jobs, or use DNS rebinding tooling to test the jobs API.

Remediation strategy

  • Upgrade every controlled Ray dependency, lockfile, image, chart, and runbook to ray 2.52.0+.
  • Enable Ray token authentication on every non-single-user cluster. Follow the current Ray token-auth docs; do not rely on the User-Agent deny list.
  • Bind the dashboard to loopback or a private network. Do not publish port 8265 on laptops, CI runners, or shared workbenches.
  • If a vulnerable dashboard was reachable from a browser-capable network, review recent jobs and rotate credentials available to the Ray process.

The prompt

Model context: this prompt was generated by GPT 5.5 Extra High reasoning.

You are remediating CVE-2025-62593, a critical Ray dashboard jobs RCE before
Ray 2.52.0. Produce exactly one output:

- A reviewer-ready PR that upgrades Ray to 2.52.0+, enables token auth on
  shared clusters, restricts dashboard bind/ingress, and documents operator
  cleanup, or
- TRIAGE.md if this repository does not own an affected Ray runtime.

## Rules

- Scope only CVE-2025-62593 and directly related Ray version, dashboard
  bind, token auth, ingress, and credential cleanup.
- Do not prove exposure by submitting jobs, setting User-Agent, using DNS
  rebinding tools, or executing commands through the jobs API.
- Do not treat a Mozilla User-Agent check as sufficient.
- Do not auto-merge.

## Steps

1. Inventory Ray pins, images, launch scripts, and dashboard/ingress config.
2. A target is vulnerable if it resolves to `ray < 2.52.0`.
3. If Ray is not owned here, stop with `TRIAGE.md`.
4. Upgrade to `ray 2.52.0+` and regenerate lockfiles, images, and SBOMs.
5. Enable token authentication for any shared or networked cluster. Bind
   the dashboard to loopback or deny port `8265` at the edge.
6. Add safe tests that reject `ray < 2.52.0` and assert dashboard ingress
   is not public. Do not call `/api/jobs`.
7. Add a PR body section named `CVE-2025-62593 operator actions` covering
   versions, dashboard exposure, token-auth state, job-history review, and
   credential rotation.
8. Use PR title:
   `fix(sec): remediate CVE-2025-62593 in Ray`.

## Stop conditions

- No affected Ray runtime is controlled by this repository.
- A fixed Ray version cannot be consumed and the dashboard cannot be
  isolated.
- Verification would require submitting jobs or running rebinding attacks.
- Validation fails for unrelated pre-existing reasons; document those
  failures instead of broadening scope.

Rollback

Do not restore Ray below 2.52.0 to a reachable dashboard. If the patched release must be withdrawn, keep port 8265 denied or stop the dashboard until another fixed release is installed.

Verification - what the reviewer looks for

  • No controlled pin or image resolves Ray < 2.52.0.
  • Shared clusters enable token auth; dashboards are not on public ingress.
  • Tests never submit jobs or use rebinding tools.
  • Operator notes cover KEV urgency and credential/job review after exposure.

Output contract

  • Reviewer-ready PR upgrading Ray to 2.52.0+ and isolating the dashboard.
  • TRIAGE.md when Ray ownership is outside this repository.

Watch for

  • Upgrading a library pin while a laptop ray start --head or CI sidecar still publishes 8265.
  • Assuming Chrome-only users are safe; Firefox and Safari remain in scope and Chrome mitigations have been rolled back before.
  • Treating localhost as safe when Codespaces, tunnels, or previews forward the dashboard.

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References

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Affected products and version ranges

  • ray-project / ray
    • Affected: version < 2.52.0.
    • Affected-status source: security-advisories@github.com.

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Matched pattern: Command, code, expression, and template injection

How to check exposure for CVE-2025-62593

  • Trace untrusted values to process execution, interpreters, evaluators, template engines, dynamic imports, and administrative scripting features.
  • Determine whether the affected path is reachable across each trust boundary and which service account or host privilege it inherits.

Temporary containment

  • Disable the affected execution or templating feature, or restrict it to authenticated administrative networks and identities.

How to remediate CVE-2025-62593

  • Replace string-built commands or evaluated code with fixed operations and structured argument APIs that do not invoke a shell.
  • Use strict allowlists for operation identifiers and reject unexpected input before it reaches any interpreter.

How to verify the remediation

  • Confirm untrusted input is handled only as data and cannot select an executable, expression, template, or argument boundary.
  • Run static data-flow checks and focused tests with harmless sentinel strings; verify no child process or evaluator is invoked.

Stop and triage conditions

  • Stop if a proposed fix still concatenates untrusted data into an execution or evaluation string.
  • Switch to incident response if unexpected commands, processes, files, or outbound connections are observed.

Required output

Return a reviewer-ready minimal patch with exposure evidence, authoritative fixed-version evidence, regression tests, deployed-artifact verification, rollback notes, and source links; otherwise return TRIAGE.md with the blocking decision and owner.

Safety boundary

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References and evidence

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Security Recipes. “CVE-2025-62593: Ray Dashboard Jobs RCE Remediation” Last updated . Canonical URL: https://security-recipes.ai/cve/CVE-2025-62593/.

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