CVE-2025-7195 – Operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd

https://notcve.org/view.php?id=CVE-2025-7195

07 Aug 2025 — 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, user_setup, which modifies the permissions of the /etc/passwd file to 664 during build time. Developers who used Operator-SDK before 0.15.2 to scaffold their operator may still be impacted by this if the insecure user_setup script is still being used to build new container images. In affected images, the /etc/passwd file is creat... • https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7195 • CWE-276: Incorrect Default Permissions •