CVE Alert: CVE-2025-53945

Vulnerability Summary: CVE-2025-53945
apko allows users to build and publish OCI container images built from apk packages. Starting in version 0.27.0 and prior to version 0.29.5, critical files were inadvertently set to 0666, which could likely be abused for root escalation. Version 0.29.5 contains a fix for the issue.
Affected Endpoints:
No affected endpoints listed.
Published Date:
7/18/2025, 4:15:30 PM
🔥 CVSS Score:
Exploit Status:
Not ExploitedReferences:
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko/commit/04f37e2d50d5a502e155788561fb7d40de705bd9
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko/commit/aedb0772d6bf6e74d8f17690946dbc791d0f6af3
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko/releases/tag/v0.27.0
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko/releases/tag/v0.29.5
- https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko/security/advisories/GHSA-x6ph-r535-3vjw
Recommended Action:
No proposed action available. Please refer to vendor documentation for updates.
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