Description
A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Container-native Virtualization images. This issue stems from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during build time. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can 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.
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Timeline
| 2025-08-26: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2025-10-23: | Made public. |
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Antony Di Scala and Mike Whale for reporting this issue.
References
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57848
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391099 (RHBZ#2391099)
