Openshift-gitops-operator: openshift gitops: namespace admin cluster takeover via privileged jobs
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.1epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 49% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOpsRed Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18redhat-developer · gitops-operatorReferences
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23203https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23206https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:23207https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:1017https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-13888https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418361https://github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator/commit/bc6ac3e03d7c8b3db5d8f1770c868396a4c2dcefhttps://github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator/pull/897https://github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator/releases/tag/v1.16.2