Skip to content
Red HatCVE-2026-14450

Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI): privilege escalation

Critical9.9CVE-2026-14450 · Published Aug 10, 2026 · updated Aug 27, 2026

A flaw was found in the MaaS API. This vulnerability allows any pod within the cluster to bypass the Kuadrant AuthPolicy gateway by forging HTTP headers, specifically `X-MaaS-Username` and `X-MaaS-Group`, which are trusted verbatim. This lack of first-party authentication enables an attacker to gain unauthorized access and escalate privileges. The concrete consequences include the ability to mint Kubernetes ServiceAccount tokens in other tenants' namespaces, revoke API keys, and exfiltrate sensitive model access configuration.

Red Hat advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI)
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
Details and references

More Red Hat advisories

All Red Hat
Advisory
Red Hat QEMU: memory corruption
Medium4.4Aug 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: denial of service
Low3.9Aug 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: privilege escalation
High7.8Aug 10
Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI): denial of service
High8.5Aug 10
Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI): remote code execution
Critical9.9Aug 10
Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI): privilege escalation
High8.8Aug 10

Critical advisories by email

Wednesdays: the week’s critical and high advisories in the AI and data stack, with the fixed versions. Only in weeks that have some.

Double opt-in. Unsubscribe any time.