CVE-2025-13888 (GCVE-0-2025-13888)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-12-15 15:36 – Updated: 2026-01-22 15:50
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Title
Openshift-gitops-operator: openshift gitops: namespace admin cluster takeover via privileged jobs
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.
Severity ?
9.1 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat-developer gitops-operator Affected: 0 , < 1.16.2 (semver)
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    Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16 Unaffected: sha256:c41c99f360a2515bce55c42e309e2c72500ba66d3a2c461412dee7de5ea9a9fa , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_gitops:1.16::el8
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    Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17 Unaffected: sha256:27e7a59bb5c5f60be7509e5f4f07f4181d62e6583a943c46f56f568bfc30c2c1 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_gitops:1.17::el8
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    Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18 Unaffected: sha256:3eb6308c58365182b4b5b5aabf35754d821e25b8a04b0595900fb47d52cd3ecc , < * (rpm)
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    Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18 Unaffected: sha256:43ba408b8ed58259bf338fd29260d936fbde9846f772d0580b3e7486ef8ea300 , < * (rpm)
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    Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_gitops:1
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