Operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd_CVE-2025-7195

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    "description": "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 was created during build time with group-writable permissions and a group ownership of root (gid=0). An attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, may be able to 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.",
    "published": "2025-08-07T19:05:08.756Z",
    "modified": "2025-08-07T19:36:47.691Z",
    "type": "cve",
    "title": "Operator-sdk: privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions of /etc/passwd",
    "source": "redhat",
    "references": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-7195\nhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2376300",
    "id": "CVE-2025-7195",
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        "CWE-276"
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    "product": "File Integrity Operator",
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