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Medium · 6.9 CVE-2026-22872 EUVD-2026-33729GHSA-qjjm-7j9w-pw72GO-2026-5584

Capsule TenantResource RawItems Cluster-Scoped Resource Creation Vulnerability

Published Jun 1, 2026 · Updated Jun 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. The Capsule Controller runs with cluster-admin privileges. Although the TenantResource RawItems processing logic forcibly sets the namespace, this is ineffective for cluster-scoped resources. Prior to version 0.13.0, tenant administrators can leverage the Controller's elevated privileges to create cluster-scoped resources (such as ClusterRole and ValidatingWebhookConfiguration) that they cannot create directly, achieving cross-tenant privilege escalation and cluster-level attacks. The attack vector has a few limiting factors. This attack requires Tenant Owner privileges and requires Capsule Controller running with cluster-admin privileges (default configuration). Additionally, some clusters may have additional admission controllers blocking malicious resources. Version 0.13.0 patches this issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
projectcapsule capsule < 0.13.0 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/projectcapsule/capsule < 0.13.0 0.13.0 GHSA-qjjm-7j9w-pw72

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