Bug 2376300 (CVE-2025-7195) - CVE-2025-7195 operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd
Summary: CVE-2025-7195 operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-7195
Deadline: 2025-08-07
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security DevOps Team
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Reported: 2025-07-04 10:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-29 20:18 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-04 10:23:35 UTC 
Potential privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd in Openshift containers and components. The /etc/passwd file has bad permissions.The permissions of /etc/passwd 664 due to which /etc/passwd is group writable and can be used to escalate privileges to root.
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