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 is 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.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - 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 is
    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. (CVE-2025-7195)

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
432558	SCA: security update for github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk (GHSA-856v-8qm2-9wjv)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
432558	SCA: security update for github.com/operator-framework/operator-sdk (GHSA-856v-8qm2-9wjv)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium

Detections

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CVE-2025-7195

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Tenable Plugins

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