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
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391 ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-72508 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2514225 ↗