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CVE-2026-61682

CRITICAL · CVSS 9.9 EPSS 0.38% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS · Published 2026-09-18 · Last synced 2026-10-07

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The vulnerability affects the kcp front-proxy in Kubernetes, where it fails to sanitize certain identity headers, allowing authenticated tenants to inject malicious group values. This can lead to cross-workspace impersonation and unauthorized access to critical resources, including secrets and RBAC data. Organizations using kcp should prioritize upgrading to versions 0.31.4 or 0.32.2 to mitigate this critical risk.

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CVE
CVE-2026-61682
Severity
CRITICAL
CVSS
9.9
EPSS
0.38%
Kubernetes

Original NVD Description

kcp is a Kubernetes-like control plane for form-factors and use-cases beyond Kubernetes and container workloads. Prior to 0.31.4 and 0.32.2, the kcp front-proxy does not remove inbound X-Remote-User, X-Remote-Group, or X-Remote-Extra-* identity headers before forwarding requests to shards. Any authenticated tenant can inject X-Remote-Group: system:masters, authorization.kcp.io/warrant, authentication.kcp.io/scopes, or a group used for per-workspace required-group gating, and the shard trusts these values as authenticated identity assertions. This allows cross-workspace impersonation, authorization bypass, and arbitrary reading, writing, or deletion of resources, secrets, RBAC data, APIExports, APIBindings, and LogicalClusters. This issue is fixed in versions 0.31.4 and 0.32.2.