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Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-53487 EUVD-2026-64181GHSA-gvhc-wv3v-7pf8GO-2026-5941

Kite has an authenticated cluster RBAC bypass in /api/v1/overview

Published Aug 21, 2026 · Updated Aug 25, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Kite is a Kubernetes dashboard. Prior to version 0.12.3, authenticated Kite users with any role can request `/api/v1/overview` for a cluster that their roles do not permit by selecting that cluster with `x-cluster-name`. The overview route is registered before `middleware.RBACMiddleware()` and `GetOverview` only checks `len(user.Roles) > 0`, so it returns aggregate Kubernetes inventory and capacity data from unauthorized clusters. Version 0.12.3 fixes the issue.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kite-org kite < 0.12.3 —

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/zxh326/kite < 0.12.3 0.12.3 GHSA-gvhc-wv3v-7pf8

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