rhobs/observability-operator · Security
Observability Operator is vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment through its Custom Resource MonitorStack
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-mj6p-p843-x5wc
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-2843
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 8.8 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
A flaw was found in the Observability Operator. The Operator creates a ServiceAccount with ClusterRole upon deployment of the Namespace-Scoped Custom Resource MonitorStack. This issue allows an adversarial Kubernetes Account with only namespaced-level roles, for example, a tenant controlling a namespace, to create a MonitorStack in the authorized namespace and then elevate permission to the cluster level by impersonating the ServiceAccount created by the Operator, resulting in privilege escalation and other issues.
CWEs
- CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2843 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21146 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2843 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355222 ↗
- https://github.com/rhobs/observability-operator/commit/98b927fab755decd6e030ac6af5c005879bab020 ↗
- https://github.com/rhobs/observability-operator/releases/tag/v1.3.0 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mj6p-p843-x5wc ↗