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🛡️ CVE-2026-18608

🟠 CVSS 8.7 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-250 NVD
8.7
CVSS Score
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Description

A flaw was found in the Data Science Pipelines Operator (DSPO). The operator's ClusterRole, which defines its permissions, includes extensive privileges beyond what is necessary for its operation. These excessive permissions, such as the ability to execute commands within pods and manage cluster-wide roles, could be exploited. If the DSPO pod were compromised, an attacker could leverage these privileges to gain full administrative control over the entire Kubernetes cluster.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative 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 none.

CVSS metrics in full

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

  • Attack vector: Network — reachable from anywhere that can route to the service.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: High — administrative rights are needed first.
  • 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: None.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-18608 is classified as CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges. The software runs with more privilege than the task needs, so any flaw in it inherits that privilege.

Affected software

CVE-2026-18608 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 10 August 2026 and last revised on 14 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

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Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.7
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CWE CWE-250
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-08-10
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-14
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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