CVE-2025-13888
critical · 9.1A 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.
9.1
CVSS
0.7%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
51st
EPSS percentile
2025-12-15
Published
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-266
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23203
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23206
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23207
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1017
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13888
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418361
- https://github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator/commit/bc6ac3e03d7c8b3db5d8f1770c868396a4c2dcef
- https://github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator/pull/897
- https://github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator/releases/tag/v1.16.2
Query this programmatically:
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