{"id":"CVE-2026-18982","title":"A flaw was found in the RHOAI training-operator","summary":"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 imperson…","severity":"high","cvss":8.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-250"],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"rhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9","affected":["rhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9 (all versions)","rhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9 (all versions)","rhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9 (all versions)","rhoai/odh-training-operator-rhel9 (all versions)","rhoai/odh-latency-predictor-prediction-rhel9 (all versions)","rhoai/odh-latency-predictor-training-rhel9 (all versions)"],"published":"2026-08-10","updated":"2026-09-21","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-21T11:17:08.680","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18982","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53261","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53262","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53263","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60367","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60520","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18982","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511648","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-18982.json"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18982"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18982"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org","csaf","vex","red-hat"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-08-11T15:34:16.136114Z"},"epss":0.00534,"epssPercentile":0.43784,"ingestedAt":"2026-09-21T10:35:15.461Z","patched":["openshift_ai 2.25","openshift_ai 3.3","openshift_ai 3.4","openshift_ai 3.5"],"slug":"CVE-2026-18982","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.\n\n## Vendor advisories\n\n- **RHSA-2026:53261** · Red Hat · fixed in: Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 · released 2026-08-11 · [advisory](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53261)\n- **RHSA-2026:53263** · Red Hat · fixed in: Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 · released 2026-08-11 · [advisory](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53263)\n- **RHSA-2026:60520** · Red Hat · fixed in: Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 · released 2026-08-27 · [advisory](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60520)\n- **RHSA-2026:53262** · Red Hat · fixed in: Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4 · released 2026-08-11 · [advisory](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:53262)\n- **RHSA-2026:60367** · Red Hat · fixed in: Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.5 · released 2026-08-26 · [advisory](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60367)","depth":"twilight","depthScore":49,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":48.4,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}