CVE-2025-7195

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-7195
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-7195.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-7195
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2025-08-07T19:05:08Z
Modified
2026-09-10T03:30:26Z
Severity
  • 6.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
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.

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.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "redhat",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-276"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/7xxx/CVE-2025-7195.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
ffaf278993c8fcb00c6f527c9f20091eb8dd3352
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.15.2"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.0.1
v0.0.2
v0.0.3
v0.0.4
v0.0.5
v0.0.6
v0.1.0
v0.10.0
v0.11.0
v0.12.0
v0.13.0
v0.14.0
v0.15.0
v0.15.1
v0.2.0
v0.3.0
v0.4.0
v0.5.0
v0.6.0
v0.7.0
v0.8.0
v0.9.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-7195.json"