Capsule tenant owner with "patch namespace" permission can hijack system namespaces

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    "summary": "Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. In Capsule v0.7.0 and earlier, the tenant-owner can patch any arbitrary namespace that has not been taken over by a tenant (i.e., namespaces without the ownerReference field), thereby gaining control of that namespace. Version 0.7.1 contains a patch.",
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      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:41.735707217Z",
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