CVE-2026-42541CWE-862

Kubewarden: RBAC Reconnaissance via unchecked can_i host capability call

Medium · published May 12, 2026

CVSS v3.1
4.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
18.2
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

Kubewarden is a policy engine for Kubernetes. Prior to , An attacker with privileged AdmissionPolicy or AdmissionPolicyGroup create permissions (which isn't the default) can craft a policy that makes use of the can_i host callback. The callback issues a SubjectAccessReview (SAR) requests to enumerate RBAC permissions of any user or service account across the cluster. can_i does not perform that check to enforce the context-aware allow-list and forwards the request directly to the callback handler, which executes a real SubjectAccessReview using policy-server privileges. This creates a policy-level authorization gap: can_i is effectively usable even when the policy has no context-aware resource grant. This is an information disclosure / reconnaissance issue, and not direct workload data exfiltration. The attacker learns permission information, such as whether specific service accounts can "get secrets", "create pods", or "bind clusterroles" in chosen namespaces. This vulnerability is fixed in .

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
4.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00270 · 18.2th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2026-05-12T17:57Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 MAY 17:57Z
    Kubewarden: RBAC Reconnaissance via unchecked can_i host capability call
    cvelistv5