Governance-policy-addon-controller: governance-policy-addon-controller: arbitrary container image override via managedclusteraddon annotation enables rce on spoke
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.8epss 0.8%
exploitation probability
0.8%top 46% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in the governance-policy-addon-controller component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. A user with permissions to annotate the namespaced ManagedClusterAddOn resource can override the governance-policy container image. This allows an attacker to run a controlled image with cluster-admin privileges on the managed cluster, leading to arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-66793https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2507538