CVE-2026-18982 (GCVE-0-2026-18982)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 20:45 – Updated: 2026-08-11 04:41
VLAI
Title
Odh-training-operator-rhel9: rhoai fork aggregates training job create onto native edit/admin clusterroles
Summary
A flaw was found in the RHOAI training-operator. This vulnerability allows a user with standard edit or admin roles in any Kubernetes namespace to escalate their privileges. Through the creation of training jobs, an attacker can impersonate service accounts, access the host filesystem, and potentially execute arbitrary code remotely. This issue arises from the aggregation of training job permissions onto native Kubernetes edit and admin ClusterRoles, coupled with unrestricted PodTemplateSpec passthrough.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53263 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18982 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511648 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 Unaffected: 1785188461 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:3.3::el9
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Date Public
2026-08-10 18:54
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