CVE-2025-7195 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, usersetup, which modifies the permissions of the /etc/passwd file to 664 during build time. Developers who used...

CVE-2020-1706

It has been found that in openshift-enterprise version 3.11 and openshift-enterprise versions 4.1 up to, including 4.3, multiple containers modify the permissions of /etc/passwd to make them modifiable by users other than root. An attacker with access to the running container can exploit this to...