CVE-2026-76654 affecting package kubernetes 1.30.10-30
An NTLM coercion vulnerability exists on Windows nodes when the subPath supplied in a pod's volumeMounts is set to a symbolic link that points to an attacker-controlled network share. When a kubelet resolves symlinks, it does not reject a target that resolves to a UNC path. As a result, the kubelet will transparently attempt to authenticate to the share using NTLM. This allows an attacker to obtain the NetNTLMv2 hash of the account under which the kubelet is running. An attacker could then attempt to crack the hash to retrieve the corresponding password or relay it to impersonate the node, if the node is domain-joined.
- Products
- kubernetes
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-76654
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 18:43 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
CVE-2026-76654 affecting package kubernetes 1.30.10-30
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 26 Oct 2026, 23:17 UTC
An NTLM coercion vulnerability exists on Windows nodes when the subPath supplied in a pod's volumeMounts is set to a symbolic link that points to an attacker-controlled network share. When a kubelet resolves symlinks, it does not reject a target that resolves to a UNC path. As a result, the kubelet will transparently attempt to authenticate to the share using NTLM. This allows an attacker to obtain the NetNTLMv2 hash of the account under which the kubelet is running. An attacker could then attempt to crack the hash to retrieve the corresponding password or relay it to impersonate the node, if the node is domain-joined.
osv:AZL-111137
kubernetes
Fixed versions: Not specified
Complete source record
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