CVE-2026-66786

critical

Description

A flaw was found in submariner. In cert-auth mode, the connection configuration is built using free-form strings from the Custom Resource Definition (CRD) without proper validation. A malicious cluster can exploit this by publishing a CableName that includes newlines and ipsec.conf directives. This allows an attacker to inject arbitrary configuration parameters or execute commands through leftupdown hooks, leading to remote code execution as root on the gateway node.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2507531

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-66786

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:63016

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-09-02

Updated: 2026-09-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:M/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00737