CVE•Published 2026-08-10•Modified 2026-08-27•1 article on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-18982

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CVSS v3.1

8.8

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 59% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-250Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Description

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.

Timeline

Published 2026-08-10

Modified 2026-08-27

External references

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