Red Hat Operator-SDK up to 0.15.1 default permission

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Red Hat Operator-SDK up to 0.15.1. The impacted element is an unknown function. This manipulation causes default permission. This vulnerability appears as CVE-2025-7195. The attack requires local access. There is no available exploit. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Operator-SDK up to 0.15.1. It has been declared as problematic. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a default permission vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-276. During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-7195 since 07/07/2025. The exploitation appears to be difficult. Attacking locally is a requirement. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 0.15.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at EUVD (EUVD-2025-23951) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-2533). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Red Hat OpenShift

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• Red Hat

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• Operator-SDK

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• 0.15.0
• 0.15.1

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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