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🛡️ CVE-2026-1784 — openshift-container-platform

🟠 CVSS 8.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-15 NVD
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Description

The Route OpenShift resource allows to define routes to make pods reachable at a subdomain through HAProxy. It was found that the checks performed on the spec.path YAML stanza in a Route document was insufficient and could allow a controlled injection of the HAProxy configuration.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: Low — an ordinary user account is enough.
  • User interaction: None — nobody has to be tricked into anything.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-1784 is classified as CWE-15: External Control of System or Configuration Setting. One or more system settings or configuration elements can be externally controlled by a user.

Affected software

CVE-2026-1784 is recorded against 1 package.

  • openshift-container-platform

Timeline and source

Published on 2 June 2026 and last revised on 19 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Other advisories for this package

openshift-container-platform has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-15: External Control of System or Configuration Setting) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-15
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-06-02
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-19
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
openshift-container-platform

References

Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436075
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436075

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