Description
A flaw was found in the OpenShift Pipelines operator. The tekton-scheduler-rolebinding ClusterRoleBinding grants the system:authenticated group write access to Kueue and cert-manager custom resources via the tekton-scheduler-role ClusterRole. When Kueue or cert-manager CRDs are present on the cluster, any authenticated user can disrupt workload scheduling, tamper with scheduling priorities, delete other tenants' Workload objects, or induce cert-manager to overwrite TLS Secrets including the default ingress controller certificate.
Problem types
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Product status
Timeline
| 2026-04-25: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2026-04-25: | Made public. |
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Christopher Lusk (North Echo Security Research) for reporting this issue.
References
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10840
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2484720 (RHBZ#2484720)