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CVE-2026-66787

This vulnerability stems from insufficient validation of advertised IP addresses within EndpointSlice objects.

MEDIUM 5.4EPSS 0.24%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

A flaw was found in the lighthouse component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. This vulnerability stems from insufficient validation of advertised IP addresses within EndpointSlice objects. A compromised spoke cluster can exploit this by creating EndpointSlices with attacker-controlled IP addresses, causing other clusters' lighthouse DNS to redirect legitimate service traffic to malicious endpoints. This enables a remote attacker to conduct transparent Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks on cross-cluster service communications, potentially leading to unauthorized information disclosure and data manipulation.

CVSS 3.1
5.4 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
EPSS
0.24% probability · 15th percentile
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-489
Source
secalert@redhat.com

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.