A container privilege escalation flaw was found in KServe ModelMesh container 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.
CVE-2025-57852
Score 5.2 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2025-09-30. NVD baseline CVSS 6.4; sources differ by 1.2.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 6.4
- EG Score
- 5.2(medium)
- EG Risk
- —
- EPSS
- 4.4%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
September 30, 2025
Last Modified
April 15, 2026
References (7)
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16981
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16982
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16983
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:16984
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:17501
- secalert@redhathttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57852
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391105
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2025-57852(5)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2025:17501Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 2.24.0 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- RHSA-2025:16984Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 2.19.3 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- RHSA-2025:16982Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 2.22.2 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- RHSA-2025:16983Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 2.21.1 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
- RHSA-2025:16981Red Hat Product SecurityHigh
Red Hat Security Advisory: RHOAI 2.16.3 - Red Hat OpenShift AI
Patch Availability(5)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
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| redhat | rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9:sha256:92629b1462ca2ed121dd2f3069a005d78e00e1344d330d6a8710f53ec58b74b8 | 2025-10-07 | redhat |
| redhat | rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel8:sha256:97e2bd9b587f08e135a9aeb9b3e0dc6eafa1a9bdacbb5ecb681ce9bd5aa37fc9 | 2025-09-29 | redhat |
| redhat | rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel8:sha256:53ac36baa374159b9065c718a9ede821bbb61d9ebe9502b2243e0a9f7aca0d16 | 2025-09-29 | redhat |
| redhat | rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9:sha256:687c8eeed55f021ecaab1307f0e88b5b16d91f72d63b3d7168d7bbee90e8947b | 2025-09-29 | redhat |
| redhat | rhoai/odh-modelmesh-rhel9:sha256:1709fa3c79aad4ba7eb9be8299949396092c8e20210124e0c0936385bc04e839 | 2025-09-29 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
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