CVE-2025-2843 Observability-operator: observability operator privilege escalation
A tenant with namespace-level access can escalate to cluster-level privileges by impersonating a ServiceAccount created by the Observability Operator.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-2843?
CVE-2025-2843 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Cluster Observability Operator 1.3.1, published on 12 Nov 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official 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.
Weakness: CWE-266
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-2843?
3 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/rhobs/observability-operator.
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
github.com/rhobs/observability-operator Go | All versions | 1.3.0 |
github.com/rhobs/observability-operator Go | All versions | 1.3.0 |
github.com/rhobs/observability-operator Go | All versions | 1.3.0 |
How do I fix CVE-2025-2843?
Upgrade github.com/rhobs/observability-operator to 1.3.0 or later.
Is CVE-2025-2843 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-2843 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-mj6p-p843-x5wc, GO-2025-4125.