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AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
S:C (not vendor's S:U) because SA abuse grants cluster-admin access crossing all tenant namespace security boundaries beyond the vulnerable component.
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CVSS VectorVendor: redhat
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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A flaw was found in odh-dashboard. This vulnerability allows an attacker, who has compromised the dashboard's Service Account (SA) token, to exploit overly broad permissions granted to the SA. This enables the attacker to escalate their privileges to cluster-administrator level, gain access to sensitive data like credentials and keys across the entire cluster, and disrupt multi-tenant isolation.
AnalysisAI
Privilege escalation in odh-dashboard (Red Hat OpenShift AI) allows an attacker who has obtained the dashboard's Service Account token to abuse overly broad SA permissions and elevate to cluster-administrator level. Exploitation grants full access to secrets, credentials, and keys across the entire OpenShift cluster, while also breaking multi-tenant isolation between workloads. …
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| Exploitation | Exploitation requires that the attacker has first compromised the dashboard's Service Account token - this is the hard prerequisite. … Additional conditions and limiting factors are described in the full assessment. |
| Risk Assessment | The CVSS 8.8 (High) score with AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N reflects the severity once an attacker holds the SA token - exploitation is then trivial and fully network-accessible. … Full risk analysis with EPSS, KEV, and SSVC signal comparison available after sign-in. |
| Exploit Scenario | An attacker who has achieved initial code execution inside an odh-dashboard pod - for example via an SSRF vulnerability, a supply-chain compromise of a dashboard dependency, or lateral movement from another compromised workload - reads the auto-mounted SA token from /var/run/secrets/kubernetes.io/serviceaccount/token. The attacker then issues direct kubectl or Kubernetes API requests using this token, discovering that the bound ClusterRole grants cluster-admin-equivalent permissions. … |
| Remediation | The primary remediation is to apply the vendor-supplied patch from Red Hat once available; consult https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18949 for the exact fixed RHOAI operator version, as a specific patched release version is not confirmed from available input data. … Detailed patch versions, workarounds, and compensating controls in full report. |
Recommended ActionAI
Within 24 hours, immediately audit odh-dashboard Service Account token distribution and current RBAC assignments; implement least-privilege scoping and rotate all SA tokens if any compromise is suspected. …
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EUVD-2026-55819
GHSA-vccp-8mm3-h2f6