{"id":"CVE-2025-7195","aliases":["GHSA-856v-8qm2-9wjv","GO-2025-3852"],"url":"https://o3.security/vulnerability/CVE-2025-7195","summary":"Operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd","details":"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. \n\nIn 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":"2025-08-07T19:05:08.756Z","modified":"2026-09-10T03:30:26.515340501Z","cvss":{"score":6.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"epss":null,"cisaKev":null,"exploitsKnown":0,"affectedPackages":[{"ecosystem":"Go","name":"github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk","fixedVersion":"0.15.2"}],"fix":null,"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:23406"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:23478"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2026:0129"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19332"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19335"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19958"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:19961"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21368"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21885"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22415"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22416"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22418"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22420"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22683"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:22684"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23528"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23529"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23542"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0627"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0718"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0722"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0737"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:2572"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:5633"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7195"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/7xxx/CVE-2025-7195.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-7195"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376300"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk"}],"provenance":{"sources":["OSV.dev","FIRST.org (EPSS)"],"lastVerified":"2026-09-10T03:30:26.515340501Z"}}