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CVE-2025-57847

6.4 medium SSVC exploitation: none Modified

A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Ansible Automation Platform images. This issue arises from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during the build process. 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 vulnerability allows an attacker to add a new user with any arbitrary UID, including UID 0, gaining full root privileges within the container.

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Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 2

Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.

Change history 1

  1. First seenCVSS 6.4 · redhatNVD modified 2026-10-13 18:17

Affected (CPE criteria) 1

  • cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References 13