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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.9 Critical

CVE-2026-66788

Lighthouse: lighthouse: arbitrary namespace injection via attacker-controlled broker label

Description

A flaw was found in Lighthouse. A remote attacker, by compromising a spoke cluster, can exploit a vulnerability where the destination namespace for resource injection is derived from an attacker-controlled label or annotation on the broker object. This allows the attacker to inject unauthorized EndpointSlices and ServiceImports into any namespace on peer clusters, including critical system namespaces like kube-system and openshift-*. This could lead to privilege escalation or other forms of system compromise within the cluster.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

Default version status: affected

  • 1790670439 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

Default version status: affected

  • 1790670231 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

Default version status: affected

  • 1790670243 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

Default version status: affected

  • 1790670912 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

Default version status: affected

  • 1788023916 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

Default version status: affected

  • 1788023940 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

Default version status: affected

  • 1788105072 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

Default version status: affected

  • 1788073481 to < *unaffected

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