Operator SDK <0.15.2 RCE via insecure user_setup /etc/passwd
CVE-2025-7195 Published on August 7, 2025

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 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.

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Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2025-7195 can be exploited with local system access, and requires user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.

Attack Vector:
LOCAL
Attack Complexity:
HIGH
Privileges Required:
HIGH
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
HIGH
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Timeline

Reported to Red Hat.

Made public. 34 days later.

Weakness Type

Incorrect Default Permissions

During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files.


Products Associated with CVE-2025-7195

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Openshiftfileintegrityoperator 1
 
Acm 2
 
Advancedclustersecurity 4
 
Apicurioregistry 3
 
Jbossfuse 7
 
Openshift 4
 
Openshiftdatafoundation 4
 
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Webterminal 1
 
Red Hat Openshift File Integrity Operator
 
Red Hat Multicluster Engine
 
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Red Hat Devworkspace
 
Red Hat Container Native Virtualization
 
Red Hat Webterminal
 
Red Hat Openshift Compliance Operator
 
Red Hat Rhosemc
 
Red Hat Service Registry
 

Affected Versions

operator-framework operator-sdk: Red Hat RHEL-9-CNV-4.17: Red Hat RHEL-9-CNV-4.18: Red Hat RHEL-9-CNV-4.20: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.6: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7: Red Hat multicluster engine 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Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.21%
Percentile
10.51%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.