Workload impersonation via attacker-owned control FIFOs
Published Sep 14, 2026 · Updated Sep 14, 2026
Path-reuse weakness in Eclipse Ankaios 0.1.0 through 1.0.2 allows local users to impersonate workloads through pre-created FIFOs. The agent derives predictable workload paths and reuses existing control FIFOs after checking only existence or file type, without validating ownership or permissions. Write access to the shared base directory is required; the impersonated workload's configured access can expose or modify cluster desired state.
Summary
What happened
Path-reuse weakness in Eclipse Ankaios 0.1.0 through 1.0.2 allows local users to impersonate workloads through pre-created FIFOs. The agent derives predictable workload paths and reuses existing control FIFOs after checking only existence or file type, without validating ownership or permissions. Write access to the shared base directory is required; the impersonated workload's configured access can expose or modify cluster desired state.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-86836
- Published
- Sep 14, 2026
- Updated
- Sep 14, 2026
- Vendor
- The Eclipse Foundation
- Product
- Eclipse Ankaios
- Classifications
- T1036
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Sep 14, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 14, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0.1.0 <=1.0.2
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