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CVE-2025-13888 (GCVE-0-2025-13888)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-12-15 15:36
Modified
2025-12-24 13:49
Severity ?
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Summary
A flaw was found in OpenShift GitOps. Namespace admins can create ArgoCD Custom Resources (CRs) that trick the system into granting them elevated permissions in other namespaces, including privileged namespaces. An authenticated attacker can then use these elevated permissions to create privileged workloads that run on master nodes, effectively giving them root access to the entire cluster.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat-developer gitops-operator Version: 0   
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16 Unaffected: sha256:bcc192e3e9ff8dfd15bd311fdeda919653721e85338c96d5ad29fa6f1e4e3365   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_gitops:1.16::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17 Unaffected: sha256:27e7a59bb5c5f60be7509e5f4f07f4181d62e6583a943c46f56f568bfc30c2c1   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_gitops:1.17::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18 Unaffected: sha256:3eb6308c58365182b4b5b5aabf35754d821e25b8a04b0595900fb47d52cd3ecc   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_gitops:1.18::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_gitops:1
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