CVE-2026-15584: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed
CVE-2026-15584 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the incluster-checks tool used in OpenShift. The tool creates privileged debug pods with host filesystem access in the shared default namespace. Any user with the standard edit role can exec into these pods and gain root access on cluster nodes. This vulnerability affects the Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed product. The CVSS score is 7.5, indicating high severity.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This vulnerability arises from the incluster-checks tool in OpenShift creating privileged debug pods that have host filesystem access within the shared default namespace. Because these pods are accessible to any user with the standard edit role, such users can execute commands inside the pods and obtain root privileges on the underlying cluster nodes. This represents an elevation of privilege risk within the Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed environment. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-15584 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Potential Impact
An attacker with standard edit role permissions in the OpenShift cluster can exploit this vulnerability to gain root access on cluster nodes by executing commands inside privileged debug pods. This compromises confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the cluster nodes, potentially allowing full control over the affected systems.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15584 for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, restrict edit role permissions to trusted users only and monitor for unusual exec activity into debug pods. Follow Red Hat's official recommendations once published.
CVE-2026-15584: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed
Description
CVE-2026-15584 is a privilege escalation vulnerability in the incluster-checks tool used in OpenShift. The tool creates privileged debug pods with host filesystem access in the shared default namespace. Any user with the standard edit role can exec into these pods and gain root access on cluster nodes. This vulnerability affects the Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed product. The CVSS score is 7.5, indicating high severity.
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.5high
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This vulnerability arises from the incluster-checks tool in OpenShift creating privileged debug pods that have host filesystem access within the shared default namespace. Because these pods are accessible to any user with the standard edit role, such users can execute commands inside the pods and obtain root privileges on the underlying cluster nodes. This represents an elevation of privilege risk within the Red Hat Pen Drive Powered by Red Hat Lightspeed environment. The vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2026-15584 with a CVSS 3.1 base score of 7.5 (AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).
Potential Impact
An attacker with standard edit role permissions in the OpenShift cluster can exploit this vulnerability to gain root access on cluster nodes by executing commands inside privileged debug pods. This compromises confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the cluster nodes, potentially allowing full control over the affected systems.
Mitigation Recommendations
Patch status is not yet confirmed — check the vendor advisory at https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15584 for current remediation guidance. Until an official fix is available, restrict edit role permissions to trusted users only and monitor for unusual exec activity into debug pods. Follow Red Hat's official recommendations once published.
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-07-13T11:47:02.045Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-15584","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6a54e21068715ace4303d40a
Added to database: 07/13/2026, 13:03:12 UTC
Last enriched: 07/13/2026, 13:17:31 UTC
Last updated: 07/13/2026, 13:57:54 UTC
Views: 5
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