CVE 5 MEDIUM

Openshift: openshift: non-admin user can bypass resourcequota and flood etcd with events causing cluster-wide api degradation_CVE-2026-10533

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MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

Description

A flaw was found in OpenShift Container Platform. Completed pods with restartPolicy: Never do not count toward ResourceQuota pod limits, and Kubernetes events are not quota-scoped. A non-privileged user who can create pods in a namespace can exploit this to generate a large volume of events that accumulate in etcd, causing API server performance degradation across the cluster.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-10533
Source redhat
Published Jun 1, 2026 at 13:19

Affected Product

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

CWE Classification

References

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