CVE-2025-7195 Information

Description

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.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7195 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376300

Related CNNVD

CNNVD-202508-640 (Published: 2025-08-07)