CVE-2026-22039

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have a critical authorization boundary bypass in namespaced Kyverno Policy apiCall. The resolved urlPath is executed using the Kyverno admission controller ServiceAccount, with no...

Kyverno Cross-Namespace Privilege Escalation via Policy apiCall

Summary A critical authorization boundary bypass in namespaced Kyverno Policy apiCall. The resolved urlPath is executed using the Kyverno admission controller ServiceAccount, with no enforcement that the request is limited to the policy’s namespace. As a result, any authenticated user with...

CVE-2026-22039

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. Versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3 have a critical authorization boundary bypass in namespaced Kyverno Policy apiCall. The resolved urlPath is executed using the Kyverno admission controller ServiceAccount, with no...

CVE-2026-22039

Kyverno contains a cross-namespace privilege escalation in the Policy apiCall path for versions prior to 1.16.3 and 1.15.3. The vulnerability lets an authenticated user with permission to create a namespaced Policy cause Kyverno’s admission controller to perform Kubernetes API requests using Kyve...