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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.1

CVE-2025-13888 json

Openshift-gitops-operator: openshift gitops: namespace admin cluster takeover via privileged jobs

published 2025-12-15 10 mo ago modified 2026-10-07 33 d ago also GHSA-pcqx-8qww-7f4v , GO-2025-4242 , EUVD-2025-203383

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.7%
EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 53%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator 1.16.2
  • redhat-developer gitops-operator 1.16.2
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16 sha256:c41c99f360a2515bce55c42e309e2c72500ba66d3a2c461412dee7de5ea9a9fa
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17 sha256:27e7a59bb5c5f60be7509e5f4f07f4181d62e6583a943c46f56f568bfc30c2c1
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18 sha256:3eb6308c58365182b4b5b5aabf35754d821e25b8a04b0595900fb47d52cd3ecc, sha256:43ba408b8ed58259bf338fd29260d936fbde9846f772d0580b3e7486ef8ea300
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20251230T014957-150000.1.134.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0037-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-13888 updated cvss 9.1

openshift-gitops-operator: OpenShift GitOps: Namespace Admin Cluster Takeover via Privileged Jobs

  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16 openshift-gitops-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:23207
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17 openshift-gitops-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:23206
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18 openshift-gitops-1, openshift-gitops-1 1768881033
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:1017
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/gitops-operator-bundle
    not affected: inline mitigations already exist
  • Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16 openshift-gitops-1 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17 openshift-gitops-1 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18 openshift-gitops-1, openshift-gitops-1 1768880947, openshift-gitops-1 1768880997, openshift-gitops-1 1768881034, openshift-gitops-1 1768881087, openshift-gitops-1 1768881228, +5 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
10 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 53% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/redhat-developer/gitops-operator
<1.16.2
all versions
1.16.2

Affected products

  • redhat-developer gitops-operator
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.