CVE-2026-18982CWE-250

CVE-2026-18982

High · published August 11, 2026

CVSS v3.1
8.8
EPSS
1%
Percentile
55.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
8.8 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00791 · 55.8th percentile
Weakness
CWE-250 · Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Published
2026-08-11T01:17Z
References (7)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 10 AUG 20:45Z
    Odh-training-operator-rhel9: rhoai fork aggregates training job create onto native edit/admin clusterroles
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