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Vulnerabilities CVE-2025-7195

CVE-2025-7195

Medium
Open
TLP:CLEAR

Operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd

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Critical Infrastructure

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Description

Early versions of Operator-SDK provided an insecure method to allow operator containers to run in environments that used a random UID. Operator-SDK before 0.15.2 provided a script, user_setup, which modifies the permissions of the /etc/passwd file to 664 during build time. Developers who used Operator-SDK before 0.15.2 to scaffold their operator may still be impacted by this if the insecure user_setup script is still being used to build new container images. In affected images, the /etc/passwd file is created during build time with group-writable permissions and a group ownership of root (gid=0). An attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, may be able to leverage their membership in the root group to modify the /etc/passwd file. This could allow the attacker to add a new user with any arbitrary UID, including UID 0, leading to full root privileges within the container.

Details

CVSS Score
6.4
EPSS Score
0.22%

12.6th percentile

CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Confidence
90%
Published
Aug 7, 2025
Last Modified
Aug 13, 2026
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