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CVE-2026-66793

Governance-policy-addon-controller: governance-policy-addon-controller: arbitrary container image override via managedclusteraddon annotation enables rce on spoke

No known exploitation. EPSS puts it in the 55th percentile. Only a workaround so far.

CVSS 3.18.8HighEPSS percentile55th0.8% chance in 30 daysCISA KEVNot listedNo confirmed exploitation
No public exploit knownFixWorkaroundNo fixed build yet

Published Updated Sources: CVE.org, NVD

NVD CVE.org

What to do

No fixed build is published yet. The vendor describes a workaround.

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What it is

From the CVE record

A flaw was found in the governance-policy-addon-controller component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. A user with permissions to annotate the namespaced ManagedClusterAddOn resource can override the governance-policy container image. This allows an attacker to run a controlled image with cluster-admin privileges on the managed cluster, leading to arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation.

In plain language

No plain-language summary for this CVE yet.

Exploitation

Where each signal puts this CVE on the scale from published to confirmed exploited.

EPSS55th
CISA KEV

Not in the catalog. CISA has not confirmed exploitation.

Public exploits

No public exploit or proof of concept found in the sources we track.

EPSS

0.8% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the 55th percentile of scored CVEs.

Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST.org. A probability, not a confirmation.

Lifecycle

13 events over 9 days, from the signal feeds we watch.

  1. Workaround availablerecord updated
  2. Workaround availablerecord updated
  3. Workaround availablerecord updated
  4. Workaround availableworkaround available, published, weakness classified, att&ck mapped, record updated, record updated

Affected products

Technical detail

CVSS 3.1 vector

Open in the CVSS calculator

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Scored 8.8 by NVD.

How it is reached

  • Attack Vector NetworkExploitable remotely over the network without any special conditions
  • Attack Complexity LowNo special conditions — the attack can be reliably reproduced
  • Privileges Required LowRequires basic user-level privileges
  • User Interaction NoneNo user interaction needed — fully automated exploitation

Scope

  • Scope UnchangedImpact is limited to the vulnerable component itself

Impact if exploited

  • Confidentiality HighTotal information disclosure — all data in the component is compromised
  • Integrity HighTotal loss of integrity — attacker can modify any data in the component
  • Availability HighTotal denial of service — the component is completely unavailable

Weaknesses

ATT&CK techniques

Mapped from the weaknesses above (CWE to ATT&CK), not observed in attacks.

Sources

References in the record

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