CVE-2025-3528 (GCVE-0-2025-3528)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-09 11:58
Modified
2025-11-20 07:27
Severity ?
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Summary
A flaw was found in the Mirror Registry. The quay-app container shipped as part of the Mirror Registry for OpenShift has write access to the `/etc/passwd`. This flaw allows a malicious actor with access to the container to modify the passwd file and elevate their privileges to the root user within that pod.
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Version: 0   < 2
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   Red Hat MIRROR-REGISTRY-2.0-RHEL-8 Unaffected: v2.0.7-9   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:mirror_registry:2.0.0::el8
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   Red Hat mirror registry for Red Hat OpenShift     cpe:/a:redhat:mirror_registry:1
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