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1 vulnerability by rhobs
CVE-2025-2843 (GCVE-0-2025-2843)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-12 16:36 – Updated: 2025-12-19 18:30
VLAI
Title
Observability-operator: observability operator privilege escalation
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)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
- CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21146 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2843 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355222 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| rhobs | observability-operator |
Affected:
0 , < 1.3.0
(semver)
|
|
| Red Hat | Cluster Observability Operator 1.3.1 |
Unaffected:
sha256:84a281b3cd370cd42b89489c770f8b31d13e9aa570dc1b6cda6042bfba4824f8 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:cluster_observability_operator:1.3::el9 |
Date Public
2025-06-12 20:04
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