CVE-2026-18951 (GCVE-0-2026-18951)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 20:45 – Updated: 2026-08-12 17:30
VLAI
Title
Odh-training-operator-rhel9: [trainer v2 security] trn-02: rhoai overlay aggregates trainjobs crud into standard edit clusterrole
Summary
A flaw was found in the Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) overlay for the training operator. The RHOAI overlay incorrectly aggregates `trainjobs` management permissions into the native Kubernetes `edit ClusterRole`. This allows any user with `edit ClusterRole` permissions in a namespace to create, modify, and delete `TrainJobs`. When combined with a separate vulnerability (TRN-01) that permits arbitrary pod configurations, a remote attacker with namespace editor privileges could exploit this to escalate privileges, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-12 15:36 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53262 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53263 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18951 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511187 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 Unaffected: 1785188461 , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:3.3::el9
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Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 Unaffected: 1784814352 , < * (rpm)
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Date Public
2026-08-10 18:54
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