CVE-2025-53945

HIGH

apko <0.29.5 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS v3 7.0
EPSS 0.0003
EPSS Percentile 7.3%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:L

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-276
Status published
Products (2)
chainguard-dev/apko >= 0.27.0, < 0.29.5
chainguard.dev/apko 0.27.0 - 0.29.5Go
Published Jul 18, 2025
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026