high · CVSS v3 8.5 · CVSS v4 8.4
CVE-2026-122316
Kyverno from 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the mutate-existing background proce…
Description
Kyverno from 1.17.0 before 1.19.2 contains a missing authorization vulnerability in the mutate-existing background processor that allows namespaced tenants to modify resources outside their namespace. Attackers can create a NamespacedMutatingPolicy targeting Namespace objects or victim-namespace resources via CEL expressions, making the background-controller ServiceAccount strip Pod Security labels cluster-wide.
Scores
- Severity
- high
- CVSS v2
- 7.5
- CVSS v3
- 8.5
- CVSS v4
- 8.4
- EPSS
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