Vulnerability in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes 2

CVE-2026-66788

A flaw was found in Lighthouse. A remote attacker, by compromising a spoke cluster, can exploit a vulnerability where the destination namespace for resource injection is derived from an attacker-controlled label or annotation on the broker object. This allows the attacker to inject unauthorized EndpointSlices and ServiceImports into any namespace on peer clusters, including critical system namespaces like kube-system and openshift-*. This could lead to privilege escalation or other forms of system compromise within the cluster.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 9.9 (Critical). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-66788?
CVE-2026-66788 is a critical-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes 2, classified under Improper Access Control. CVSS score: 9.9/10. Published 2026-08-20.
How severe is CVE-2026-66788?
Critical severity. CVSS v3 base score is 9.9 out of 10.