CVE-2026-10090 (GCVE-0-2026-10090)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-05 08:54
Modified
2026-08-27 02:17
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VLAI Severity ?
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CWE
- CWE-267 - Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions
Summary
A flaw was found in the Application Subscription controller (multicluster-operators-subscription) of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (ACM). A user with namespace-scoped "edit" privileges in an ACM hub namespace can create a Channel resource pointing to a Helm repository they control and a Subscription resource referencing it. The app-subscription controller fetches and applies the Helm chart contents with its own elevated authority, without verifying whether the subscription creator holds the "open-cluster-management:subscription-admin" role and without restricting applied resources to the subscription namespace. This allows the attacker to include cluster-scoped resources in the Helm chart, such as a ClusterRoleBinding granting the attacker's ServiceAccount the "cluster-admin" ClusterRole. Successful exploitation results in full cluster-admin privilege escalation. This contradicts the ACM documentation which states that non-subscription-admin users should have resources deployed into the subscription namespace only.
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Impacted products
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 |
Unaffected: 1787263584 < * cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2.11::el9 |
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