CVE-2025-7195
Operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd
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Operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd
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.
Reserved 2025-07-07 | Published 2025-08-07 | Updated 2025-08-07 | Assigner redhat| 2025-07-04: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2025-08-07: | Made public. |
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7195
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376300 (RHBZ#2376300)
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