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CVE-2025-13888

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CVE-2025-13888

Published: Dec 15, 2025

Modified: Jan 22, 2026

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

9.1

CRITICAL

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.

VendorProductVersions

redhat-developer

gitops-operator

affected
0 - < 1.16.2

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16

unaffected
sha256:c41c99f360a2515bce55c42e309e2c72500ba66d3a2c461412dee7de5ea9a9fa - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17

unaffected
sha256:27e7a59bb5c5f60be7509e5f4f07f4181d62e6583a943c46f56f568bfc30c2c1 - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18

unaffected
sha256:3eb6308c58365182b4b5b5aabf35754d821e25b8a04b0595900fb47d52cd3ecc - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18

unaffected
sha256:43ba408b8ed58259bf338fd29260d936fbde9846f772d0580b3e7486ef8ea300 - < *

Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps

All versions

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

High

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

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