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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-07-07 | Published 2025-08-07 | Updated 2025-12-15 | Assigner redhat




MEDIUM: 5.2CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L

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Timeline

2025-07-04:Reported to Red Hat.
2025-08-07:Made public.

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank Antony Di Scala, James Force, and Michael Whale for reporting this issue.

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19332 (RHSA-2025:19332) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19335 (RHSA-2025:19335) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19958 (RHSA-2025:19958) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19961 (RHSA-2025:19961) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21368 (RHSA-2025:21368) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21885 (RHSA-2025:21885) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22415 (RHSA-2025:22415) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22416 (RHSA-2025:22416) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22418 (RHSA-2025:22418) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22420 (RHSA-2025:22420) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22683 (RHSA-2025:22683) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22684 (RHSA-2025:22684) vendor-advisory

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7195 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376300 (RHBZ#2376300) issue-tracking

cve.org (CVE-2025-7195)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-7195)

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