CVE-2025-57852 (GCVE-0-2025-57852)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-30 14:37
Modified
2025-10-01 09:12
Severity ?
5.2 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-276 - Incorrect Default Permissions
Summary
A container privilege escalation flaw was found in KServe ModelMesh container images. This issue stems from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during build time. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can 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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16983
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2025:16984
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57852
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391105
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.19 Unaffected: sha256:53ac36baa374159b9065c718a9ede821bbb61d9ebe9502b2243e0a9f7aca0d16   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:2.19::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.21 Unaffected: sha256:687c8eeed55f021ecaab1307f0e88b5b16d91f72d63b3d7168d7bbee90e8947b   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:2.21::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai
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