GHSA-856v-8qm2-9wjv · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — 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.
Conclusion & alert: CVE-2025-7195 is rated Low Risk (25.7/100): CVSS Medium severity, with low exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.00%). Mandatory action: Monitor for updates and reassess as exploit intelligence or EPSS changes.
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EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).
| # | Date | Old EPSS score | New EPSS score | Delta (New - Old) |
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| 1 | 2025-08-08 | — | 0.00% | — |
Full EPSS history (1 record total)
CVSS metrics for this CVE.
| Base score | Version | Severity | Vector | Exploitability | Impact | Score source |
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| 6.4 | 3.1 | MEDIUM |
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0.5 | 5.9 | [email protected] |
GHSA-856v-8qm2-9wjv · Severity: medium · Ecosystem: go — operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd
| vendor | priority | summary | link |
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redhat
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medium | — | https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7195 |
| Vendor | Product | Version | Raw CPE |
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| No affected products in dataset. | |||