An insecure modification vulnerability in the /etc/passwd file was found in all versions of OpenShift ServiceMesh (maistra) before 1.0.8 in the openshift/istio-kialia-rhel7-operator-container. An attacker with access to the container could use this flaw to modify /etc/passwd and escalate their privileges.
Source: https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1704
Reference (s):
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1704