Bug 2483292 (CVE-2026-10090) - CVE-2026-10090 multicluster-operators-subscription: multicluster-operators-subscription: namespace edit user can deploy cluster-scoped ClusterRoleBinding and become cluster-admin via Application Subscription
Summary: CVE-2026-10090 multicluster-operators-subscription: multicluster-operators-su...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-10090
Deadline: 2026-08-05
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-05-29 14:50 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-08-05 08:47 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-05-29 14:50:50 UTC
A flaw was found in the Application Subscription controller (multicluster-operators-subscription) of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (ACM). A user with namespace-scoped "edit" privileges in an ACM hub namespace can create a Channel resource pointing to a Helm repository they control and a Subscription resource referencing it. The app-subscription controller fetches and applies the Helm chart contents with its own elevated authority, without verifying whether the subscription creator holds the "open-cluster-management:subscription-admin" role and without restricting applied resources to the subscription namespace. This allows the attacker to include cluster-scoped resources in the Helm chart, such as a ClusterRoleBinding granting the attacker's ServiceAccount the "cluster-admin" ClusterRole. Successful exploitation results in full cluster-admin privilege escalation. This contradicts the ACM documentation which states that non-subscription-admin users should have resources deployed into the subscription namespace only.


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