CVE-2025-7195

mediumpriority · track · 0OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.002 · 14 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.23% (14th) EPSS

CVSS 6.4 · medium

Is it mine?

131 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 0.5 · impact 5.9

v3.15.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:Lsecondary · OSV

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Trackcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-276USCWE-276US

affected products (131)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat Enterprise Linux multicluster engine for Kubernetes <2.7.7all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift Compliance Operator <1.8.1all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation <4.18all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift File Integrity Operator <1.3.8all versionscert_bundDE
Red Hat Enterprise Linux≤ multicluster engine for Kubernetes <2.7.7cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Compliance Operator <1.8.1cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ File Integrity Operator <1.3.8cert_bundDE
Red Hat OpenShift≤ Data Foundation <4.18cert_bundDE
Compliance Operator 1< v1.3enisa_euvdEU
OpenShift Compliance Operator 1< 1.8.0enisa_euvdEU
OpenShift Compliance Operator 1< 1768172669enisa_euvdEU
RHEL-9-CNV-4.17< v4.17.39-2enisa_euvdEU
RHEL-9-CNV-4.18< v4.18.25-3enisa_euvdEU
RHEL-9-CNV-4.20< v4.20.3-3enisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11< v2.11enisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.12< 1773090513enisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.12< 1773259164enisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.12< 1773259182enisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.12< 1773285089enisa_euvdEU

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advisories (3)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-2533RedHat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes: Schwachstelle ermöglicht PrivilegieneskalationDeutsch2025-11-09csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in RedHat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen.
GHSA-856v-8qm2-9wjvoperator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd2025-08-07ghsa · osvUS
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 was 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.
GO-2025-3852operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd in github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk2025-08-11vendor · osvUS
operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd in github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk

also known as (5)

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-08-07modified 2026-09-08

references (79)

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