CVE-2025-57848
mediumA container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Container-native Virtualization images.
A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Container-native Virtualization images. This issue stems from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during build time. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can 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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Affected products
Not reported by the source (unknown — not "none").
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
No vendor advisory or patch reference tagged by NVD. Check the references below.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:19904 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:20007 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:21119 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:21677 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2025:22750 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHEA-2026:0511 secalert@redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57848 secalert@redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391099 secalert@redhat.com
