CVE-2025-3528 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2025-3528

Mirror-registry: local privilege escalation due to incorrect permissions in mirror-registry

Vulnerability Description

A flaw was found in the Mirror Registry. The quay-app container shipped as part of the Mirror Registry for OpenShift has write access to the `/etc/passwd`. This flaw allows a malicious actor with access to the container to modify the passwd file and elevate their privileges to the root user within that pod.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Red Hat would like to thank Antony Di Scala and Mike Whale for reporting this issue.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

MIRROR-REGISTRY-2.0-RHEL-8, mirror registry for Red Hat OpenShift
Vulnerable Versions:
0, v2.0.7-9

Timeline

Official Publish: May 9th, 2025
Last Modified: February 27th, 2026
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)