# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2025-57852"
idYear: 2025
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2025-09-30T14:37:10.024Z"
updatedAt: "2026-03-06T23:45:29.053Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:39.058Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-57852"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2025-57852.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-57852"
title: "Openshift-ai: privilege escalation via excessive /etc/passwd permissions"
summary: "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."
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