CVE-2026-71472: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
A flaw was found in acm-search-v2-rhel9. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker, such as a hub administrator or a Search Custom Resource (CR) editor, to inject malicious shell commands or SQL statements. This occurs because the WORK_MEM string provided in the Search CR is not properly validated before being used in a bash script and an SQL query. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution within the privileged postgres pod, potentially compromising the system.
CVE-2026-71472: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Description
A flaw was found in acm-search-v2-rhel9. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker, such as a hub administrator or a Search Custom Resource (CR) editor, to inject malicious shell commands or SQL statements. This occurs because the WORK_MEM string provided in the Search CR is not properly validated before being used in a bash script and an SQL query. Successful exploitation could lead to arbitrary code execution within the privileged postgres pod, potentially compromising the system.
CVSS v3.1
Score 9.1critical
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-06T19:34:07.970Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71472","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6a83640bbf8831d53976dc27
Added to database: 08/17/2026, 19:42:03 UTC
Last updated: 08/17/2026, 19:42:03 UTC
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