high8.8
CVE-2025-2843
Observability Operator is vulnerable to Incorrect Privilege Assignment through its Custom Resource MonitorStack
Impact
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.
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| go | github.com/rhobs/observability-operator | < 1.3.0 | 1.3.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- GitHub advisory
- 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/advisories/GHSA-mj6p-p843-x5wc
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2843
- https://github.com/rhobs/observability-operator/commit/98b927fab755decd6e030ac6af5c005879bab020
- https://github.com/rhobs/observability-operator/releases/tag/v1.3.0