CVE-2026-72508

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.99.9—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.9 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-12. The CNA's CVSS baseline 9.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cna:redhat, epss, ghsa
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
9.9EG
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: 9.9Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in the multicloud-operators-subscription component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM). This vulnerability allows a namespace-admin tenant to perform a confused-deputy attack by creating Subscription Custom Resources (CRs) that leverage a highly privileged ServiceAccount (SA). This enables the tenant to deploy arbitrary cluster-scoped resources, leading to privilege escalation and potential arbitrary code execution across the cluster.

CVSS v3
9.9
EG Score
9.9CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
45
EG Risk 45/100CISA 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
Severity99% × 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
55th
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 12, 2026

Last Modified

September 5, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 3, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2514225 – (CVE-2026-72508) CVE-2026-72508 multicloud-operators-subscription: multicloud-operators-subscription: hub and spoke ServiceAccounts bound to wildcard RBAC (*/*/*)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2514225
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-72508 - 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-2026-72508
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-72508(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
redhatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel9:17872423212026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel9:17872635842026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel9:17871708302026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel9:17872421082026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel9:17872636932026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/multicluster-operators-subscription-rhel9:17872400302026-08-26redhat

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 58× in last 7d / 314× 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 07:07 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-05 07:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-05 02:33 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-05 02:33 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-05 02:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-10-04 22:27 UTCVendor advisory
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  18. 2026-10-03 19:56 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-03 19:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-10-03 01:49 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-10-03 01:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-10-02 21:58 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-02 21:58 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-02 21:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-10-02 16:13 UTCVendor advisory
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  24. 2026-09-30 21:53 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-30 21:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
  26. 2026-09-29 08:20 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-09-29 08:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  28. 2026-09-29 04:28 UTCEG score recompute
  29. 2026-09-29 04:28 UTCVendor advisory
  30. 2026-09-29 04:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  31. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  32. 2026-09-28 12:46 UTCVendor advisory
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  34. 2026-09-28 08:56 UTCVendor advisory
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  38. 2026-09-28 01:17 UTCVendor advisory
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  40. 2026-09-27 16:52 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-09-27 16:52 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-09-27 16:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  44. 2026-09-27 09:52 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-27 09:52 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-27 09:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  48. 2026-09-25 12:00 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-09-25 12:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-09-25 07:29 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-72508?
CVE-2026-72508 is a critical vulnerability published on August 12, 2026. A flaw was found in the multicloud-operators-subscription component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM). This vulnerability allows a namespace-admin tenant to perform a confused-deputy attack by creating Subscription Custom Resources (CRs) that leverage a highly privileged ServiceAccount…
When was CVE-2026-72508 disclosed?
CVE-2026-72508 was first published on August 12, 2026, with the most recent update on September 5, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-72508 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-72508 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (55th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-72508?
CVE-2026-72508 has a CVSS base score of 9.9 (the CNA's own assessment, by redhat; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-72508?
A fix for CVE-2026-72508 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-72508 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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