CVE-2025-13888GO-2025-4242GHSA-PCQX-8QWW-7F4V
Openshift-gitops-operator: openshift gitops: namespace admin cluster takeover via privileged jobs
- Published
- Last modified
- Where the record stands: published, rejected by its publisher, or superseded by another id.What do these mean? →
- published
- Whether CISA lists it in its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog: proof that attackers are using it.What do these mean? →
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Fix
- Fixed in 1.16.2
- Whether working attack code is public (Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or GitHub). Public code makes attacks easier.What do these mean? →
- None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
CISA's decision points: whether it is exploited, whether attacks can be automated, and how much control an attacker gets. Assessed (SSVC 2.0.3).What do these mean? →
- Exploitation: none
- Automatable: no
- Technical impact: total
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.
Timeline
- CVE published
- CISA SSVC assessment
Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
- Record last updated
Affected versions
- gitops-operator
fixed in 1.16.2
- openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator
Version range not reported
- openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator
Version range not reported
- openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator
Version range not reported
- openshift-gitops-1/gitops-rhel8-operator
Version range not reported
- openshift-gitops-1/gitops-operator-bundle
Version range not reported
- github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operatorGo
All versions
- github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operatorGo
fixed in 1.16.2