CVE-2025-13888: Red Hat Openshift Gitops

Critical severity, CVSS 9.1. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in OpenShift GitOps. Namespace admins can create ArgoCD Custom Resources (CRs) that trick the system into granting them elevated permissions in other namespaces, including privileged namespaces. An authenticated attacker can then use these elevated permissions to create privileged workloads that run on master nodes, effectively giving them root access to the entire cluster.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Gitops
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Gitops 1.16
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Gitops 1.17
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Gitops 1.18
• Redhat-Developer Gitops-Operator: before 1.16.2 (fixed in 1.16.2)

Published 2025-12-15. Last modified 2026-10-07.