CVE-2025-13888
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2025-12-15
- Fixed in1.16.2
- WeaknessCWE-266
Am I affected?
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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
dates in UTC- 2025-12-1516:15CVE publishedNVD
Observed activity
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- Firewall list (EDL, text): https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2025-13888?format=txt
- CSV export: https://api.ismalicious.com/edl/cve/CVE-2025-13888?format=csv
- TAXII collection of exploited CVEs
- The EDL and CSV take an API key on the Pro plan.
Versions per branch
OSV| Branch | Affected | Fixed in | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.16 | < 1.16.2 | 1.16.2 | OSV |
as publishedRanges as NVD and OSV publish them; a distribution’s build can be fixed under an older number.
Distribution builds and vendor advisories
Packages from OSV.dev and products from the vendors' CSAF advisories.
version not verifiedVersions not verified: read as OSV.dev and the vendors publish them, not checked against each vendor's release list.
Vendor advisories
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift GitOps v1.16.5 security update
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift GitOps v1.17.3 security update
Fix
- Update redhat-developer/gitops-operator to 1.16.2
- Vendor fix Red Hat Product Security RHSA-2025:23207 · 4 productsBefore applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Proof-of-concept repositories
- none listed PoC-in-GitHub
Sources
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Published
- 2025-12-15
- Last Modified
- 2026-10-07
- NVD status
- Deferred
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