Openshift: openshift: non-admin user can bypass resourcequota and flood etcd with events causing cluster-wide api degradation (Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.23 % · percentile 14 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Analyzed
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.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L | redhat |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L | NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 5.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-33641
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-10533
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openshift_container_platform:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |