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High · 8.8 CVE-2025-2843 EUVD-2025-131920GHSA-mj6p-p843-x5wcGO-2025-4125

Observability-operator: observability operator privilege escalation

Published Nov 12, 2025 · Updated Sep 21, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

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 products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rhobs observability-operator < 1.3.0 1.3.0
Red Hat Cluster Observability Operator 1.3.1 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/rhobs/observability-operator < 1.3.0 1.3.0 GHSA-mj6p-p843-x5wc

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