CVE-2026-18982

HIGHPre-NVD 8.88.8—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 8.8 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-10. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.8%CVSS: 8.8Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in the RHOAI training-operator. This vulnerability allows a user with standard edit or admin roles in any Kubernetes namespace to escalate their privileges. Through the creation of training jobs, an attacker can impersonate service accounts, access the host filesystem, and potentially execute arbitrary code remotely. This issue arises from the aggregation of training job permissions onto native Kubernetes edit and admin ClusterRoles, coupled with unrestricted PodTemplateSpec passthrough.

CVSS v3
8.8
EG Score
8.8HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
40
EG Risk 40/100CISA 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
Severity88% × 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
0.8%
EPSS %ILE
54th
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

2511648 – (CVE-2026-18982) CVE-2026-18982 odh-training-operator-rhel9: RHOAI fork aggregates training job create onto native edit/admin ClusterRoles

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511648
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-18982 - 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-2026-18982

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18982(6)

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

Patch Availability(5)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9:17873616772026-08-27redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-latency-predictor-training-rhel9:17865522502026-08-26redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9:17851884612026-08-11redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9:17851870532026-08-11redhat
redhatrhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9:17848143522026-08-11redhat

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 27× in last 7d / 136× 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. 2026-10-05 02:35 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-05 02:35 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-05 02:35 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-04 23:21 UTCEPSS rescore
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  16. 2026-10-01 19:49 UTCEPSS rescore
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  1. 2026-09-29 05:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  8. 2026-09-27 11:08 UTCVendor advisory
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  41. 2026-09-19 03:43 UTCVendor advisory
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  43. 2026-09-18 19:27 UTCEPSS rescore
  44. 2026-09-18 15:11 UTCVendor advisory
  45. 2026-09-18 15:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  46. 2026-09-18 02:38 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-09-18 02:38 UTCVendor advisory
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  49. 2026-09-17 14:06 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-18982?
CVE-2026-18982 is a high vulnerability published on August 10, 2026. A flaw was found in the RHOAI training-operator. This vulnerability allows a user with standard edit or admin roles in any Kubernetes namespace to escalate their privileges. Through the creation of training jobs, an attacker can impersonate service accounts, access the host filesystem, and…
When was CVE-2026-18982 disclosed?
CVE-2026-18982 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-2026-18982 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-18982 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (54th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-18982?
CVE-2026-18982 has a CVSS base score of 8.8 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-18982?
A fix for CVE-2026-18982 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-18982 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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