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Medium · 6.4 CVE-2025-58712 EUVD-2025-35622GHSA-r36m-fwrr-9f4g

Amq: privilege escalation via excessive /etc/passwd permissions

Published Oct 22, 2025 · Updated Mar 6, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain AMQ Broker images. This issue stems from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during build time. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can leverage their membership in the root group to modify the /etc/passwd file. This could allow the attacker to add a new user with any arbitrary UID, including UID 0, leading to full root privileges within the container.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
apache activemq-artemis — —
Red Hat RHEL-9 based Middleware Containers — —
Red Hat Red Hat AMQ Broker 7 — —

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