Description
A 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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
redhat-developer gitops-operator
Default version status: unaffected
0 to < 1.16.2affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16
Default version status: affected
sha256:c41c99f360a2515bce55c42e309e2c72500ba66d3a2c461412dee7de5ea9a9fa to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17
Default version status: affected
sha256:27e7a59bb5c5f60be7509e5f4f07f4181d62e6583a943c46f56f568bfc30c2c1 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18
Default version status: affected
sha256:3eb6308c58365182b4b5b5aabf35754d821e25b8a04b0595900fb47d52cd3ecc to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18
Default version status: affected
sha256:43ba408b8ed58259bf338fd29260d936fbde9846f772d0580b3e7486ef8ea300 to < *unaffected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
Default version status: unaffected
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 ↗