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CVE-2025-13888: gitops-operator 0 to before 1.16.2; +4 more affected products

CVE-2025-13888. CVSS 3.1 base score 9.1 (CRITICAL, Vendor/CNA). EPSS 0.00691 (percentile 0.51162), scored 2026-10-05.

Affected technology

gitops-operator · 0 to before 1.16.2
redhat-developer

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.16 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.17 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps 1.18 · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Red Hat OpenShift GitOps · Exact affected versions not specified by the source
Red Hat

Component: Not specified by the source

Attack conditions (Vendor/CNA, CVSS 3.1): Network (remote) · High privileges required · No user interaction required

What an attacker can do

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. Vendor/CNA’s CVSS 3.1 assessment (base score 9.1/10) rates confidentiality, integrity and availability impact as high.

Published 2026-10-07 11:51:59.777147+00:00

CWE: CWE-266
CCR priority: 36.6 /100 (P4)
CVSS 3.1: 9.1 /10 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H · Vendor/CNA
EPSS: 0.00691 · percentile 0.51242 · 2026-10-06
KEV: no

Provenance

FIRST EPSS daily exploit-probability · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 11:53:15.413517+00:00 UTC
NVD CVE API 2.0 · Source record · observed 2026-10-07 11:49:32.540646+00:00 UTC

Stable permalink: https://cybercodered.org/item/cve-cve-2025-13888.html