Red HatCVE-2026-18982
Red Hat RHOAI training-operator. This vulnerability: privilege escalation
High8.8CVE-2026-18982 · Published Aug 10, 2026 · updated Sep 21, 2026
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.
Affected versions
The source does not list versions here. See the source advisory for affected products and fixes.
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-250
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18982
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18982
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53261
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53262
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53263
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60367
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60520
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18982
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511648
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