Bug 2484720 (CVE-2026-10840) - CVE-2026-10840 openshift-pipelines-operator-rh: openshift-pipelines-operator: tekton-scheduler-rolebinding grants system:authenticated write access to Kueue and cert-manager resources
Summary: CVE-2026-10840 openshift-pipelines-operator-rh: openshift-pipelines-operator:...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-10840
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-04 11:30 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-23 11:41 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-04 11:30:07 UTC
A flaw was found in the OpenShift Pipelines operator (tektoncd/operator). The operator ships a ClusterRoleBinding (tekton-scheduler-rolebinding) that binds ClusterRole/tekton-scheduler-role to the system:authenticated group, granting all authenticated users cluster-wide create/update/patch/delete permissions on kueue.x-k8s.io resources (ResourceFlavor, Workload, WorkloadPriorityClass) and create/update permissions on cert-manager.io resources (Certificate, Issuer). When Kueue CRDs are present (e.g., via RHOAI), any authenticated user can disrupt cross-tenant workload scheduling by deleting ResourceFlavors, destroy other tenants' Workload objects, or tamper with scheduling priority. When cert-manager is installed, any authenticated user can create Certificate objects targeting arbitrary Secrets, including the default ingress controller's TLS Secret (openshift-ingress/router-certs-default), causing cert-manager to overwrite it with an attacker-influenced certificate. This confused deputy attack crosses authorization boundaries — the attacker cannot write Secrets directly but leverages cert-manager's ServiceAccount to do so. The RBAC objects are installed unconditionally even when the Tekton Scheduler feature is disabled.


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