Description
A flaw was found in Data Science Pipelines. A restricted user, or tenant, can exploit an improper authorization vulnerability in the setDefaultServiceAccount function. By specifying a more privileged ServiceAccount (SA) during a CreateRun request, an attacker can bypass authorization checks. This allows the tenant to run their containers with elevated privileges, potentially leading to the disclosure of sensitive information (secrets) and the ability to execute commands within other users' pods.
Published: 2026-08-10
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Workaround

To mitigate this issue, operators of Red Hat OpenShift AI should configure an allow-list for ServiceAccounts that tenants can specify in their workflow run requests. Restricting the available ServiceAccounts to a predefined, least-privileged set, such as the default `pipeline-runner` only, will prevent unauthorized privilege escalation. This configuration change should be applied to the API server responsible for processing workflow run requests. New workflow runs will respect the updated configuration.

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Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:00:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in Data Science Pipelines. A restricted user, or tenant, can exploit an improper authorization vulnerability in the setDefaultServiceAccount function. By specifying a more privileged ServiceAccount (SA) during a CreateRun request, an attacker can bypass authorization checks. This allows the tenant to run their containers with elevated privileges, potentially leading to the disclosure of sensitive information (secrets) and the ability to execute commands within other users' pods.
Title Data-sciences-pipeline: user-controlled serviceaccount for workflow pods without authorization check — confused deputy
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat openshift Ai
Weaknesses CWE-639
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_ai
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat openshift Ai
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N'}


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Redhat Openshift Ai
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-10T20:45:43.411Z

Reserved: 2026-08-03T07:57:49.907Z

Link: CVE-2026-18620

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-639

    Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key