Description
Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. The patch for CVE-2026-22039 fixed cross-namespace privilege escalation in Kyverno's `apiCall` context by validating the `URLPath` field. However, the ConfigMap context loader has the identical vulnerability — the `configMap.namespace` field accepts any namespace with zero validation, allowing a namespace admin to read ConfigMaps from any namespace using Kyverno's privileged service account. This is a complete RBAC bypass in multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters. An updated fix is available in version 1.17.2.
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Fri, 24 Apr 2026 04:00:00 +0000
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| Description | Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. The patch for CVE-2026-22039 fixed cross-namespace privilege escalation in Kyverno's `apiCall` context by validating the `URLPath` field. However, the ConfigMap context loader has the identical vulnerability — the `configMap.namespace` field accepts any namespace with zero validation, allowing a namespace admin to read ConfigMaps from any namespace using Kyverno's privileged service account. This is a complete RBAC bypass in multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters. An updated fix is available in version 1.17.2. | |
| Title | Kyverno: Cross-Namespace Read Bypasses RBAC Isolation (CVE-2026-22039 Incomplete Fix) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-863 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-04-24T03:14:27.640Z
Reserved: 2026-04-16T16:43:03.174Z
Link: CVE-2026-41068
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-04-24T04:16:19.950
Modified: 2026-04-24T04:16:19.950
Link: CVE-2026-41068
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