CVE-2026-18949 Odh-dashboard: odh-dashboard: clusterrole grants cluster-wide crud on secrets and rbac management resources
Attackers with compromised dashboard service account tokens can escalate to cluster-admin, accessing sensitive data and disrupting isolation.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-18949?
CVE-2026-18949 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25, published on 10 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
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.
Weakness: CWE-250
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-18949?
How do I fix CVE-2026-18949?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-18949 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2026-18949 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-18949 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vccp-8mm3-h2f6.