CVE-2026-18608

HIGHPre-NVD 8.78.7—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 8.7 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-10. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.7; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.7EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 8.7Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in the Data Science Pipelines Operator (DSPO). The operator's ClusterRole, which defines its permissions, includes extensive privileges beyond what is necessary for its operation. These excessive permissions, such as the ability to execute commands within pods and manage cluster-wide roles, could be exploited. If the DSPO pod were compromised, an attacker could leverage these privileges to gain full administrative control over the entire Kubernetes cluster.

CVSS v3
8.7
EG Score
8.7HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
39
EG Risk 39/100CISA SSVC

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity87% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
51st
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 10, 2026

Last Modified

September 21, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 10, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2510296 – (CVE-2026-18608) CVE-2026-18608 data-science-pipelines-operator: DSPO: Operator ClusterRole grants pods/exec:*, kubeflow.org */*, and ClusterRole/Binding CRUD cluster-wide

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510296
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-18608 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18608

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18608(7)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(6)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-operator-controller-rhel9:17881823342026-09-08redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-operator-controller-rhel9:17870020572026-08-27redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-latency-predictor-training-rhel9:17865522502026-08-26redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-operator-controller-rhel9:17851879362026-08-11redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-operator-controller-rhel9:17851893322026-08-11redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-data-science-pipelines-operator-controller-rhel9:17848334282026-08-11redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 29× in last 7d / 145× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-04 22:49 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-04 22:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-04 10:13 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-04 10:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-03 22:46 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-03 22:46 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-03 22:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-10-03 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-10-02 22:34 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-02 22:34 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-02 22:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  14. 2026-10-02 09:16 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-02 09:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  17. 2026-10-01 10:02 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-10-01 10:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  20. 2026-09-30 22:24 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-09-30 22:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-30 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
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  24. 2026-09-29 05:20 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-29 05:20 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-09-29 05:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-28 13:51 UTCEPSS rescore
  3. 2026-09-28 13:31 UTCVendor advisory
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  5. 2026-09-28 02:22 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-09-28 02:22 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-09-28 02:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  8. 2026-09-27 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
  9. 2026-09-27 11:09 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-09-27 11:09 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-27 11:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-26 15:58 UTCEPSS rescore
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  14. 2026-09-25 03:59 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-09-25 03:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  25. 2026-09-22 21:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-22 10:10 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-09-22 10:10 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-09-21 22:54 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-21 22:54 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-09-21 22:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  32. 2026-09-21 11:28 UTCVendor advisory
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  38. 2026-09-20 22:43 UTCVendor advisory
  39. 2026-09-20 22:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-09-20 10:49 UTCVendor advisory
  41. 2026-09-20 10:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-09-19 23:40 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-09-19 23:40 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-09-19 23:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  45. 2026-09-19 12:28 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-19 12:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-09-19 00:23 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-09-19 00:23 UTCVendor advisory
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  50. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  51. 2026-09-18 13:13 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-09-18 13:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-09-18 02:03 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-09-18 02:03 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-09-18 02:03 UTCGHSA enrichment
  56. 2026-09-17 14:53 UTCVendor advisory
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  60. 2026-09-17 00:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
  61. 2026-09-16 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
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  63. 2026-09-16 02:23 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-09-16 02:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  67. 2026-09-15 13:41 UTCGHSA enrichment
  68. 2026-09-14 22:51 UTCVendor advisory
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  73. 2026-09-13 21:56 UTCVendor advisory
  74. 2026-09-13 21:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  75. 2026-09-13 16:46 UTCEPSS rescore

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-18608?
CVE-2026-18608 is a high vulnerability published on August 10, 2026. A flaw was found in the Data Science Pipelines Operator (DSPO). The operator's ClusterRole, which defines its permissions, includes extensive privileges beyond what is necessary for its operation. These excessive permissions, such as the ability to execute commands within pods and manage…
When was CVE-2026-18608 disclosed?
CVE-2026-18608 was first published on August 10, 2026, with the most recent update on September 21, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-18608 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-18608 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (51st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-18608?
CVE-2026-18608 has a CVSS base score of 8.7 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-18608?
A fix for CVE-2026-18608 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-18608 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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