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CVE-2026-41068

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. The patch for CVE-2026-22039 fixed cros

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. The patch for CVE-2026-22039 fixed cross-namespace privilege escalation in Kyverno's apiCall context by validating the URLPath field. However, the ConfigMap context loader has the identical vulnerability, the configMap.namespace field accepts any namespace with zero validation, allowing a namespace admin to read ConfigMaps from any namespace using Kyverno's privileged service account.

This is a complete RBAC bypass in multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters. An updated fix is available in version 1.17.2.

HIGH · CVSS 7.7 EPSS 0.00038
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  • Public exploit or PoC is available
  • CVSS base score ≥ 7.0
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Affected Products & Versions

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kyverno< 1.17.2

Affected Packages

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Language-ecosystem packages (from OSV) tied to this CVE, with the version that fixes it - the dependency-level detail NVD doesn’t carry.
Go github.com/kyverno/kyverno HIGH

Public Exploits & PoCs

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Scoring & Timeline

7.7
HIGH · CVSS v3.1 · security-advisories@github.com
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Attack Vector
Network Adjacent Local Physical
Attack Complexity
Low High
Privileges Required
None Low High
User Interaction
None Required
Scope
Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality
None Low High
Integrity
None Low High
Availability
None Low High
Published to NVD24 Apr 2026 · 04:16 AM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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Exploitation
poc
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
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