CVE-2026-66786

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.19.1
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-09-02. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-70247 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 1.4%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in submariner. In cert-auth mode, the connection configuration is built using free-form strings from the Custom Resource Definition (CRD) without proper validation. A malicious cluster can exploit this by publishing a CableName that includes newlines and ipsec.conf directives. This allows an attacker to inject arbitrary configuration parameters or execute commands through leftupdown hooks, leading to remote code execution as root on the gateway node.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
41
EG Risk 41/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity91% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.1 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation1.4% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
1.4%
EPSS %ILE
71st
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.1): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.1 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.1 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
1.4% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-26). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track 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). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 2, 2026

Last Modified

October 19, 2026

Advisory Details (3)

Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2507531 – (CVE-2026-66786) CVE-2026-66786 submariner: submariner: ipsec.conf stanza injection via remote-supplied CableName and Subnets

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2507531
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-66786 - 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-2026-66786
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:63016

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhacm2/submariner-route-agent-rhel9:17906702542026-10-19redhat
redhatrhacm2/submariner-route-agent-rhel9:17880439702026-09-03redhat

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 31× in last 7d / 224× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. 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. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

Showing the most recent 100 of 545 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 445 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-10-27 09:04 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-27 09:04 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-27 09:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  4. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  5. 2026-10-26 09:20 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-26 09:20 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-26 09:20 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  8. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  9. 2026-10-25 14:11 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-25 10:41 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-25 10:41 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-25 10:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  13. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  14. 2026-10-24 12:02 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-24 12:02 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-24 12:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  17. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  18. 2026-10-23 13:23 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-23 13:23 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-23 13:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  21. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  22. 2026-10-22 14:40 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-22 14:40 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-22 14:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  25. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
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  1. 2026-10-21 15:50 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-21 15:50 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  3. 2026-10-20 17:07 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-20 17:07 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-20 17:07 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  6. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  7. 2026-10-19 18:26 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-19 18:26 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-19 18:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  10. 2026-10-19 17:38 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-19 17:38 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-10-19 17:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  13. 2026-10-19 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  14. 2026-10-19 08:55 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-19 08:55 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-10-19 08:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  17. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  18. 2026-10-18 10:13 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-18 10:13 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  20. 2026-10-18 03:20 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  22. 2026-10-17 11:28 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-17 11:28 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-17 11:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  25. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  26. 2026-10-16 12:46 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-16 12:46 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-16 12:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  29. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  30. 2026-10-15 14:00 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-15 14:00 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-15 14:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  33. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 71st percentile
  34. 2026-10-14 08:50 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-14 08:50 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-14 08:49 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  37. 2026-10-13 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 70th percentile
  38. 2026-10-13 04:41 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-13 04:41 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-13 04:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  41. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 70th percentile
  42. 2026-10-12 15:46 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-10-12 06:01 UTCVendor advisory
  44. 2026-10-12 06:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  45. 2026-10-11 19:31 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-10-11 16:46 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-10-11 14:07 UTCEG score recompute
  48. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 70th percentile
  49. 2026-10-10 20:00 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 70th percentile
  50. 2026-10-10 18:41 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-10 18:41 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  52. 2026-10-10 13:14 UTCVendor advisory
  53. 2026-10-10 13:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  54. 2026-10-10 09:10 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-10 09:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  56. 2026-10-10 03:52 UTCVendor advisory
  57. 2026-10-10 03:52 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  58. 2026-10-09 23:45 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-10-09 23:45 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-09 23:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  61. 2026-10-09 20:07 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 70th percentile
  62. 2026-10-09 05:45 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-10-09 05:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  64. 2026-10-09 01:38 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-10-09 01:38 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-10-09 01:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  67. 2026-10-08 17:13 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 70th percentile
  68. 2026-10-08 08:08 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-10-08 08:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  70. 2026-10-08 03:46 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-10-08 03:46 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-10-08 03:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1
  73. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 1.4% · 70th percentile
  74. 2026-10-07 23:40 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-10-07 23:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-f6r4-g4jr-h7f2 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.1

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-66786?
CVE-2026-66786 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 2, 2026. A flaw was found in submariner. In cert-auth mode, the connection configuration is built using free-form strings from the Custom Resource Definition (CRD) without proper validation. A malicious cluster can exploit this by publishing a CableName that includes newlines and ipsec.conf directives. This…
When was CVE-2026-66786 made public?
CVE-2026-66786 was made public on August 21, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on September 2, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 19, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-66786 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-66786 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (71st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-66786?
CVE-2026-66786 has a CVSS base score of 9.1 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-66786?
A fix for CVE-2026-66786 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-66786 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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