Insecure User Permissions in Operator-SDK from Red Hat
CVE-2025-7195
Key Information:
- Vendor
Red Hat
- Status
- Vendor
- CVE Published:
- 7 August 2025
What is CVE-2025-7195?
Early releases of the Operator-SDK from Red Hat contained a security flaw that allowed the /etc/passwd file to be built with insecure group-writable permissions. This issue arises from the use of the 'user_setup' script, which modifies file permissions during the container image build process. If an attacker gains access to an impacted container, they can exploit their non-root user membership in the root group to alter the /etc/passwd file. This exploitation could allow the attacker to create new user accounts with arbitrary user IDs, including root privileges, posing a severe security risk to the container and its environment.
Affected Version(s)
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 sha256:1b56fc6c4b897bb8a62b1fa176af6bace8282b2de38e3e69b5673c5ae3e6848c