Vulnerability record
CVE-2026-124441
The short answer
CVE-2026-124441 affects kyverno kyverno and is rated high (CVSS 8.7). It is not in CISA's KEV catalog; EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.41%.
What it is
Kyverno before 1.19.2 contains an authorization bypass vulnerability that allows namespaced tenants to generate any resource kind in any namespace by templating the generate rule's kind and namespace with variables. Attackers can create a Policy and trigger ConfigMap in their own namespace, causing the privileged background-controller to write NetworkPolicies or RoleBindings into victim or kube-system namespaces.
Weakness: CWE-863.
Severity
8.7 high
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Exploited (CISA KEV)
Not listed
CISA lists confirmed exploitation only
EPSS, next 30 days
0.41%
Higher than 35% of scored CVEs
How it can be exploited
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Affected products
kyverno. NVD's record lists the exact affected versions.
References
Questions
Is CVE-2026-124441 being exploited?
It is not in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog as of 2026-11-11. FIRST's EPSS estimates a 0.41% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How do I fix CVE-2026-124441?
Follow the vendor advisory in the references below. NVD lists the affected versions under its configurations.
From NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS and OSV.dev, checked . Status on NVD: Received. The description is NVD's text, quoted as published.
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