THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2025-57848 (MEDIUM 6.4) — A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Container-native Virtualization 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 aff
[NVD] CVE-2025-57848 (MEDIUM 6.4) — A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Container-native Virtualization 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 aff
CVE-2025-57848 CVSS: 6.4 MEDIUM Published: 2025-10-23T20:15:40.287
A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Container-native Virtualization 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 levera
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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-57848