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CVE-2026-10090: Privilege Defined With Unsafe Actions in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2

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Critical
VulnerabilityCVE-2026-10090cvecve-2026-10090
Published: 08/05/2026 (08/05/2026, 08:54:55 UTC)
Source: CVE Database V5
Vendor/Project: Red Hat
Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2

Description

A flaw was found in the Application Subscription controller (multicluster-operators-subscription) of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (ACM). A user with namespace-scoped "edit" privileges in an ACM hub namespace can create a Channel resource pointing to a Helm repository they control and a Subscription resource referencing it. The app-subscription controller fetches and applies the Helm chart contents with its own elevated authority, without verifying whether the subscription creator holds the "open-cluster-management:subscription-admin" role and without restricting applied resources to the subscription namespace. This allows the attacker to include cluster-scoped resources in the Helm chart, such as a ClusterRoleBinding granting the attacker's ServiceAccount the "cluster-admin" ClusterRole. Successful exploitation results in full cluster-admin privilege escalation. This contradicts the ACM documentation which states that non-subscription-admin users should have resources deployed into the subscription namespace only.

CVSS v3.1

Score 9.9critical

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Technical Details

Data Version
5.2
Assigner Short Name
redhat
Date Reserved
2026-05-29T13:35:58.652Z
Cvss Version
3.1
State
PUBLISHED
Remediation Level
null
Vendor Advisory Urls
[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10090","vendor":"Red Hat"}]

Threat ID: 6a7331b4bf8831d539e4e97e

Added to database: 08/05/2026, 12:51:00 UTC

Last updated: 08/05/2026, 12:51:00 UTC

Views: 1

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