CVE-2026-92982

HIGHPre-NVD 8.58.5
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

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

Score 8.5 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-10-15. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.5; 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-2026-102157 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.5EG
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: 0.5%CVSS: 8.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in Ansible Operator Plugins. A low-privileged Kubernetes user can exploit a Jinja2 template injection vulnerability by crafting malicious custom resource (CR) specification values. These values are processed by Ansible without proper sanitization, allowing embedded Jinja2 expressions to be executed within the operator pod. This can lead to arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation, granting the attacker control over the operator's service account with cluster-wide permissions.

CVSS v3
8.5
EG Score
8.5HIGHhigh confidence
EG Risk
38
EG Risk 38/100

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)
Severity85% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.5 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.5% × 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
0.5%
EPSS %ILE
40th
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 (8.5): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.5 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.5 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.5% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-29). 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

October 15, 2026

Last Modified

October 30, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

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

2522227 – (CVE-2026-92982) CVE-2026-92982 ansible-operator-plugins: Ansible Operator Plugins: Arbitrary Code Execution via Jinja2 Template Injection

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2522227
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-92982 - 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-2026-92982

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-92982(4)

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

Patch Availability(3)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9-operator:17918408642026-10-21redhat
redhatansible-automation-platform-27/lightspeed-rhel9-operator:17921382382026-10-21redhat
redhatopenshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9-operator:17890212002026-09-17redhat

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 23× in last 7d / 47× 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.

  1. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  2. 2026-10-30 04:26 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-10-30 04:26 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-10-30 04:26 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  5. 2026-10-30 03:21 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-10-30 03:21 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-10-30 03:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  8. 2026-10-29 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  9. 2026-10-29 15:27 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-29 15:27 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-29 15:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  12. 2026-10-29 14:24 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-29 14:24 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-10-29 14:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  15. 2026-10-29 01:01 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-29 01:01 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-29 01:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  18. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  19. 2026-10-27 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  20. 2026-10-26 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  21. 2026-10-25 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 40th percentile
  22. 2026-10-25 13:50 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-24 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  24. 2026-10-23 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
  25. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.5% · 39th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-21 19:28 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-21 19:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  3. 2026-10-21 19:08 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-10-21 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  5. 2026-10-21 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  6. 2026-10-20 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  7. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 31st percentile
  8. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
  9. 2026-10-18 02:59 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
  11. 2026-10-16 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.4% · 30th percentile
  12. 2026-10-16 16:00 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-10-16 15:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  14. 2026-10-16 14:35 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-10-16 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  16. 2026-10-16 04:27 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-10-16 04:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  18. 2026-10-16 04:09 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-16 04:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-38c7-8hx4-q72m · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.5
  20. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-10-15 15:50 UTCEG score recomputeFirst assessed: 8.5 HIGH
  22. 2026-10-15 15:47 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-92982?
CVE-2026-92982 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on October 15, 2026. A flaw was found in Ansible Operator Plugins. A low-privileged Kubernetes user can exploit a Jinja2 template injection vulnerability by crafting malicious custom resource (CR) specification values. These values are processed by Ansible without proper sanitization, allowing embedded Jinja2…
When was CVE-2026-92982 made public?
CVE-2026-92982 was made public on October 15, 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 October 15, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 30, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-92982 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-92982 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (40th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-92982?
CVE-2026-92982 has a CVSS base score of 8.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-92982?
A fix for CVE-2026-92982 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-92982 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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