CVE-2025-2843
BaseFortify
Publication date: 2025-11-12
Last updated on: 2025-11-12
Assigner: Red Hat, Inc.
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Affected Vendors & Products
| Vendor | Product | Version / Range |
|---|---|---|
| redhat | observability_operator | * |
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Exploitability
| CWE ID | Description |
|---|---|
| CWE-266 | A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. |
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Can you explain this vulnerability to me?
This vulnerability exists in the Observability Operator, where it creates a ServiceAccount with ClusterRole when deploying a Namespace-Scoped Custom Resource called MonitorStack. An attacker with only namespaced-level permissions can create a MonitorStack in an authorized namespace and then impersonate the ServiceAccount created by the Operator. This allows the attacker to escalate their privileges from namespace-level to cluster-level, leading to privilege escalation and other security issues.
How can this vulnerability impact me? :
The vulnerability can allow an attacker who has limited permissions within a namespace to escalate their privileges to the cluster level. This means they could gain unauthorized access to cluster-wide resources and perform actions beyond their original scope, potentially compromising the entire Kubernetes cluster's security and integrity.