Namespace privilege escalation via aggregated training-job permissions
Published Aug 10, 2026 · Updated Aug 10, 2026
Privilege escalation in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows remote authenticated users with namespace edit access to execute code on cluster hosts. The training operator aggregates training-job creation into Kubernetes edit and admin ClusterRoles and passes PodTemplateSpec fields without restricting service accounts, hostPath mounts, or privileged security contexts. Any namespace editor can therefore impersonate service accounts, read or write host files, and run code with host-level privileges.
Summary
What happened
Privilege escalation in Red Hat OpenShift AI allows remote authenticated users with namespace edit access to execute code on cluster hosts. The training operator aggregates training-job creation into Kubernetes edit and admin ClusterRoles and passes PodTemplateSpec fields without restricting service accounts, hostPath mounts, or privileged security contexts. Any namespace editor can therefore impersonate service accounts, read or write host files, and run code with host-level privileges.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-18982
- Published
- Aug 10, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 10, 2026
- Vendor
- 389 Directory Server
- Product
- Red Hat OpenShift AI
- Classifications
- CWE-250, T1611
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 10, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 10, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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