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2 vulnerabilities found for Cluster Observability Operator 1.3.0 by Red Hat
CVE-2025-2843 (GCVE-0-2025-2843)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 16:36 – Updated: 2025-11-12 21:05
VLAI?
Summary
A flaw was found in the Observability Operator. The Operator creates a ServiceAccount with *ClusterRole* upon deployment of the *Namespace-Scoped* Custom Resource MonitorStack. This issue allows an adversarial Kubernetes Account with only namespaced-level roles, for example, a tenant controlling a namespace, to create a MonitorStack in the authorized namespace and then elevate permission to the cluster level by impersonating the ServiceAccount created by the Operator, resulting in privilege escalation and other issues.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Cluster Observability Operator 1.3.0 |
Unaffected:
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(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:cluster_observability_operator:1.3::el9 |
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Andong Chen (Lab for Internet and Security Technology) and Zhaoxuan Isaac Jin (Lab for Internet and Security Technology) for reporting this issue.
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CVE-2025-2843 (GCVE-0-2025-2843)
Vulnerability from nvd – Published: 2025-11-12 16:36 – Updated: 2025-11-12 21:05
VLAI?
Summary
A flaw was found in the Observability Operator. The Operator creates a ServiceAccount with *ClusterRole* upon deployment of the *Namespace-Scoped* Custom Resource MonitorStack. This issue allows an adversarial Kubernetes Account with only namespaced-level roles, for example, a tenant controlling a namespace, to create a MonitorStack in the authorized namespace and then elevate permission to the cluster level by impersonating the ServiceAccount created by the Operator, resulting in privilege escalation and other issues.
Severity ?
8.8 (High)
CWE
- CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Cluster Observability Operator 1.3.0 |
Unaffected:
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(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:cluster_observability_operator:1.3::el9 |
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Andong Chen (Lab for Internet and Security Technology) and Zhaoxuan Isaac Jin (Lab for Internet and Security Technology) for reporting this issue.
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