A flaw was found in hypershift-addon-operator. A hub-cluster administrator with write access to the hypershift-operator-install-flags ConfigMap can inject malicious command-line arguments into the privileged install Job. This vulnerability, known as argument injection, allows the attacker to pull arbitrary container images and gain full administrative control (cluster-admin code execution) on managed spoke clusters.
History

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First Time appeared Hypershift
Hypershift addon Operator
Vendors & Products Hypershift
Hypershift addon Operator

Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:15:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in hypershift-addon-operator. A hub-cluster administrator with write access to the hypershift-operator-install-flags ConfigMap can inject malicious command-line arguments into the privileged install Job. This vulnerability, known as argument injection, allows the attacker to pull arbitrary container images and gain full administrative control (cluster-admin code execution) on managed spoke clusters.
Title hypershift-addon-operator: hypershift-addon-operator: unsanitized hub ConfigMap data passed as CLI arguments to privileged install Job (argument injection)
Weaknesses CWE-88
References
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cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

threat_severity

Important


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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-08-06T20:21:07Z

Links: CVE-2026-66808 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-08-07T09:58:17Z