Red Hat Multi-Cloud Operators Subscription PrivEsc via Crafted Annotations
CVE-2026-66792 Published on August 17, 2026
Multicloud-operators-subscription: multicloud-operators-subscription: isclusteradmin() trusts user-settable annotations on managed clusters
A flaw was found in the multicloud-operators-subscription component. This vulnerability allows a user on a managed cluster to escalate their privileges by creating a Subscription with specific, crafted annotations. Successful exploitation grants the attacker the ability to deploy resources into any namespace with the elevated permissions of the controller's Service Account, potentially leading to unauthorized access and control over cluster resources.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-66792 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be critical as this vulnerability has a high impact to the confidentiality, integrity and availability of this component.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public. 21 days later.
Weakness Type
What is an AuthZ Vulnerability?
The software performs an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action, but it does not correctly perform the check. This allows attackers to bypass intended access restrictions.
CVE-2026-66792 has been classified to as an AuthZ vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-66792
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Affected Versions
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11:- Version 1787262214 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787263584 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787259284 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787263693 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1786976940 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787170830 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787238598 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787240030 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787242135 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787242321 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787242131 and below * is unaffected.
- Version 1787242108 and below * is unaffected.