CVE-2026-122316

CVE-2026-122316CVE-2026-122316

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.

Scoring

CVSS 8.5 ()
VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
Last modified2026-11-05
Sourced from NVD. Curated for EU compliance use cases by Adam Lundqvist, Founder at SQUR.