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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.4

CVE-2025-58712 json

Amq: privilege escalation via excessive /etc/passwd permissions

published 2025-10-22 12 mo ago modified 2026-10-18 21 d ago also EUVD-2025-35622

cvss
6.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 10%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain AMQ Broker images. This issue stems from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during build time. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can leverage their membership in the root group to modify the /etc/passwd file. This could allow the attacker to add a new user with any arbitrary UID, including UID 0, leading to full root privileges within the container.

Patch / fix

  • Red Hat RHEL-9 based Middleware Containers 7.13.2-1

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-2025-58712 updated cvss 6.4

amq: privilege escalation via excessive /etc/passwd permissions

  • Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 amq-broker-rhel8 amq-broker-rhel8, amq-broker-rhel9 amq-broker-rhel9, amq-broker-init-rhel8 amq-broker-init-rhel8, amq-broker-init-rhel9 amq-broker-init-rhel9
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Middleware Containers for Openshift amq7/amq-broker-rhel9 7.13.2-1, amq7/amq-broker-init-rhel9 7.13.2-1, amq7/amq-broker-rhel9-operator 7.13.2-1, amq7/amq-broker-rhel9-operator-bundle 7.13.2-1, amq7-tech-preview/amq-broker-console-plugin-rhel9 7.13.2-1, amq7-tech-preview/amq-broker-jolokia-api-server-rhel9 7.13.2-1
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2025:17562

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
12 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.21% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 10% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

  • apache activemq-artemis
  • Red Hat RHEL-9 based Middleware Containers
  • Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Broker 7

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions

References

Sources

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