{"id":"EM-20261107-W1A3","url":"https://cyber.eventmonitor.net/incident/EM-20261107-W1A3/openshift-pipelines-as-code-vulnerability-cve-2026-50240/","type":"cve","title":"OpenShift Pipelines-as-Code Vulnerability (CVE-2026-50240)","subtitle":"CVE-2026-50240","subject":"CVE-2026-50240","status":"Developing","severity":"high","affected":[],"headline":null,"born":"2026-11-07T00:31:24.000Z","firstSignal":"2026-11-06T22:17:58.757Z","lastSignal":"2026-11-07T00:31:24.000Z","updated":"2026-11-07T01:58:59.939Z","revision":1,"life":[{"status":"Born","at":"2026-11-07T00:31:24.000Z","why":"second independent source: C29 CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup"},{"status":"Developing","at":"2026-11-07T00:31:24.000Z","why":"signals keep joining"}],"changeLog":[{"at":"2026-11-06T22:17:58.757Z","what":"First signal: C6 NVD CVE API 2.0"},{"at":"2026-11-07T00:31:24.000Z","what":"Born: second source, C29 CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup. Page EM-20261107-W1A3 created."}],"stages":[{"name":"Disclosed","at":"2026-11-06T22:17:58.757Z","detail":"C6 NVD published"},{"name":"Scored","at":"2026-11-06T22:17:58.757Z","detail":"CVSS 8.8"},{"name":"Exploited","at":null,"detail":"No exploitation reported"},{"name":"Advisories","at":null,"detail":"None yet"},{"name":"Vendor Response","at":null,"detail":"None in sources yet"},{"name":"Resolved","at":null,"detail":"After 14 quiet days"}],"signals":[{"at":"2026-11-06T22:17:58.757Z","source":"C6","sourceName":"NVD CVE API 2.0","role":"Database","severity":3,"title":"CVE-2026-50240 (CVSS 8.8)","text":"A flaw was found in OpenShift Pipelines-as-Code (PAC). PAC does not verify whether the creator of a Repository custom resource has permission to create PipelineRuns. A namespace user with only Repository and Secret create/delete permissions can cause PAC to execute attacker-controlled PipelineRuns as the auto-provisioned pipeline ServiceAccount, which carries ClusterRole/edit by default. This results in namespace-scoped privilege escalation, enabling Secret read, resource creation/modification/deletion, and potential supply chain injection in CI/CD namespaces.","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-50240"},{"at":"2026-11-07T00:31:24.000Z","source":"C29","sourceName":"CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup","role":"Database","severity":2,"title":"GHSA-xgwg-gwg9-92cx / CVE-2026-50240","text":"A flaw was found in OpenShift Pipelines-as-Code (PAC). PAC does not verify whether the creator of a Repository custom resource has permission to create PipelineRuns. A namespace user with only Repository and Secret create/delete permissions can cause PAC to execute attacker-controlled PipelineRuns…","url":"https://vulnerability.circl.lu/vuln/GHSA-xgwg-gwg9-92cx"}],"crowd":[],"reference":{"nvd":{"published":"2026-11-06T22:17:58.757","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","desc":"A flaw was found in OpenShift Pipelines-as-Code (PAC). PAC does not verify whether the creator of a Repository custom resource has permission to create PipelineRuns. A namespace user with only Repository and Secret create/delete permissions can cause PAC to execute attacker-controlled PipelineRuns…","product":"","seen":1794013185971},"kev":null,"epss":null,"p0":false},"mergedInto":null,"publisher":"Event Monitor Cyber"}