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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.9 Critical

CVE-2026-72508

Multicloud-operators-subscription: multicloud-operators-subscription: hub and spoke serviceaccounts bound to wildcard rbac (*/*/*)

Description

A flaw was found in the multicloud-operators-subscription component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM). This vulnerability allows a namespace-admin tenant to perform a confused-deputy attack by creating Subscription Custom Resources (CRs) that leverage a highly privileged ServiceAccount (SA). This enables the tenant to deploy arbitrary cluster-scoped resources, leading to privilege escalation and potential arbitrary code execution across 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 2.11

Default version status: affected

  • 1787263584 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13

Default version status: affected

  • 1787263693 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14

Default version status: affected

  • 1787170830 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15

Default version status: affected

  • 1787240030 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

Default version status: affected

  • 1787242321 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

Default version status: affected

  • 1787242108 to < *unaffected

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