{"id":"CVE-2025-2843","summary":"Observability-operator: observability operator privilege escalation","details":"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.","aliases":["GHSA-mj6p-p843-x5wc","GO-2025-4125"],"modified":"2026-08-12T03:51:37.419103849Z","published":"2025-11-12T16:36:04.735Z","related":["openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1"],"database_specific":{"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/2xxx/CVE-2025-2843.json","cna_assigner":"redhat","cwe_ids":["CWE-266"]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:21146"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2843"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/2xxx/CVE-2025-2843.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2843"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355222"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/rhobs/observability-operator"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/rhobs/observability-operator","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"9a4dc0f833db756fec4c5080b4ed9f22e1d4ab58"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"1.3.0"}],"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD"}}],"versions":["v1.2.0","v1.0.0","v0.4.2","v0.4.1","v0.4.0","v0.3.5","v0.3.4","v0.3.3","v0.3.2","v0.3.1","v0.3.0","v0.2.0","v0.1.0","v0.0.30","v0.0.29","v0.0.28","v0.0.27","v0.0.26","v0.0.25","v0.0.24","v0.0.23","v0.0.22","v0.0.21","v0.0.20","v0.0.19","v0.0.18","v0.0.17","v0.0.16","v0.0.15","v0.0.14","v0.0.13","v0.0.12","v0.0.11","v0.0.10","v0.0.9","v0.0.8","v0.0.7","v0.0.6","v0.0.5","v0.0.4","v0.0.3","v0.0.2","v0.0.1"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-2843.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"}]}