Vulnerability details

CVE-2026-61850

akuity kargo

Kargo: Privilege escalation via Project RBAC management in the Kargo API

CVSS 4.0
9.3Critical

Official description

Kargo manages and automates the promotion of software artifacts. From 0.6.0 until 1.8.14, 1.9.9, and 1.10.8, two authorization flaws in the `project-scoped RBAC API` let an authenticated user with delegated permission to manage a Project's `Roles` or `ServiceAccounts` confer permissions exceeding the user's own. A user authorized to edit `Roles` can create, replace, or add rules granting permissions not held by the user; a user authorized to edit a Role's ServiceAccount can bind an identity, including the user's own, to a more powerful Role. A Kargo Role comprises a `ServiceAccount, Role, and RoleBinding` in the Project namespace. Changes are written using the API server's broadly privileged credentials after only a coarse resource-kind edit check, rather than checking each permission being conferred. This permits escalation to Project-administrator access, disclosure of `Project Secrets` and credentials, and modification or deletion of Project resources. Stolen Git, container-registry, or Helm-registry credentials can extend confidentiality and integrity impacts to those external systems. Escalation remains limited to Projects where the attacker already has RBAC-management delegation and does not itself grant cluster-wide or cross-Project access. Default non-administrator roles do not permit these operations; exploitation requires an `administrator-created custom role` granting the relevant permissions and control of an account assigned that role. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.14, 1.9.9, and 1.10.8.

CVSS scores

ScoreVersionSourceVector
9.3Critical 4.0 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA) (GitHub_M) CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L

Affected products

VendorProductVersionsSource
akuity kargo >= 0.6.0, < 1.8.14 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
akuity kargo >= 1.10.0-rc.1, < 1.10.8 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)
akuity kargo >= 1.9.0-rc.1, < 1.9.9 CVEProject cvelistV5 (CNA)

References and advisories

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Details

Published
2026-10-30
Last updated
2026-11-05
State
Published
Assigner (CNA)
GitHub_M

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

0.35%
Probability of exploitation in 30 days
29.8%
Percentile (among all CVEs)

SSVC assessment (CISA)

Automatable
No
Exploitation
None
Technical impact
Total

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-269
    Improper Privilege Management