Critical

Lighthouse: lighthouse: arbitrary namespace injection via attacker-controlled broker label

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

A flaw was found in Lighthouse. A remote attacker, by compromising a spoke cluster, can exploit a vulnerability where the destination namespace for resource injection is derived from an attacker-controlled label or annotation on the broker object. This allows the attacker to inject unauthorized EndpointSlices and ServiceImports into any namespace on peer clusters, including critical system namespaces like kube-system and openshift-*. This could lead to privilege escalation or other forms of system compromise within the cluster.

Announced 20 Aug 2026Source revision 1

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CVE-2026-66788

Primary source · Revision 1

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Security context

Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-66788

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

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Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

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Structured affected-version data

Original package identities and version rules from this source.

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Related CVEs: CVE-2026-66788
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Publisher severity

critical

Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics

Event: #39057 · Revision 1
Added to Heist Feed: Sun, 25 Oct 2026 10:40:10 GMT
Publisher date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 18:15:37 GMT

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