CVE•Published 2026-08-17•Modified 2026-08-27•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-70495
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.8
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
1
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 99% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. This component's `search-serviceaccount` has overly broad permissions, allowing it to impersonate users and groups across the entire cluster. If an attacker gains access to any of the pods running under this service account, they could exploit this to achieve `system:masters` access, granting them full control over the cluster.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-17
Modified 2026-08-27
External references
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More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-70495Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-70495Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
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CVE-2026-70495Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
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Google dork
"CVE-2026-70495" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.
Known PoCs on GitHub
No public proof-of-concept repositories found for CVE-2026-70495 on GitHub.