High
Security advisory
Due to insufficient input validation of Kyma, authenticated users can pass a Header of their choice and escalate privileges which can completely compromise the cluster.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-38182
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Due to insufficient input validation of Kyma, authenticated users can pass a Header of their choice and escalate privileges which can completely compromise the cluster.
osv:CVE-2021-38182
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:52.275596721Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://wiki.scn.sap.com/wiki/display/PSR/SAP+Security+Patch+Day+-+December+2021",
"https://github.com/kyma-project/kyma/security/advisories/GHSA-2vjp-5q24-hqjv"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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