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Red HatCVE-2026-66786

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2: remote code execution

Critical9.1CVE-2026-66786 · Published Sep 2, 2026 · updated Sep 5, 2026

A flaw was found in submariner. In cert-auth mode, the connection configuration is built using free-form strings from the Custom Resource Definition (CRD) without proper validation. A malicious cluster can exploit this by publishing a CableName that includes newlines and ipsec.conf directives. This allows an attacker to inject arbitrary configuration parameters or execute commands through leftupdown hooks, leading to remote code execution as root on the gateway node.

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Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
all versionsNo fix yet
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