CVE-2026-18982 (GCVE-0-2026-18982)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 20:45 – Updated: 2026-08-27 15:07
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Odh-training-operator-rhel9: rhoai fork aggregates training job create onto native edit/admin clusterroles
Summary
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.
Severity
8.8 (High)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-11 15:34 UTC
CWE
- CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Assigner
References
6 references
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| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53261 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53262 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
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| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60520 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18982 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511648 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
Impacted products
4 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 |
Unaffected:
1785187053 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:2.25::el9 |
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 |
Unaffected:
1785188461 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:3.3::el9 |
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 |
Unaffected:
1784814352 , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai:3.4::el9 |
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 |
Unaffected:
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(rpm)
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Date Public
2026-08-10 18:54
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They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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