CVE•Published 2025-12-15•Modified 2026-10-07•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2025-13888
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
9.1
CRITICAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
51
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 49% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
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.
Timeline
Published 2025-12-15
Modified 2026-10-07
External references
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