A flaw was found in the governance-policy-addon-controller component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. A user with permissions to annotate the namespaced ManagedClusterAddOn resource can override the governance-policy container image. This allows an attacker to run a controlled image with cluster-admin privileges on the managed cluster, leading to arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation.
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| Description | A flaw was found in the governance-policy-addon-controller component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. A user with permissions to annotate the namespaced ManagedClusterAddOn resource can override the governance-policy container image. This allows an attacker to run a controlled image with cluster-admin privileges on the managed cluster, leading to arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation. | |
| Title | Governance-policy-addon-controller: governance-policy-addon-controller: arbitrary container image override via managedclusteraddon annotation enables rce on spoke | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-20 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-18T17:59:45.726Z
Reserved: 2026-07-27T17:51:24.886Z
Link: CVE-2026-66793
Updated: 2026-08-18T17:59:38.883Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-18T15:17:00.140
Modified: 2026-08-18T18:19:24.073
Link: CVE-2026-66793
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Updated: 2026-08-18T17:00:12Z