CVSS 4.0
7.2 highCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCVE-2026-88984
High (7.2) in kubeflow pipelines. EPSS 0.3% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/kubeflow/pipelines 0.0.0-20260420170029-186dd1f3b040.
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Kubeflow Pipelines enables users to build and deploy portable, scalable machine learning workflows. Prior to 2.16.1, the multi-user API server treats the empty namespace used by shared or global pipelines as an authorization exception for modification and deletion operations. An authenticated user can modify or delete shared pipeline definitions and versions without the required Kubernetes RBAC permissions, compromising their integrity and availability. Read-only access to shared pipelines remains intentional, single-user deployments intentionally bypass multi-user checks, and execution of a modified pipeline is a conditional downstream consequence. The separate shared-pipeline multipart upload authorization path is outside this advisory and is not remediated by version 2.16.1. This issue is fixed in version 2.16.1.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 24th percentile. Scored 2026-11-10. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
- CISA's assessment (SSVC)
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial, assessed 2026-11-09. From CISA's Vulnrichment in the CVE List: whether it is exploited, whether exploiting it can be automated, and how much control it gives.
- OWASP Top 10
- A01:2025 Broken Access Control
- Published
- Modified
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting analysis
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
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Affected
Versions
From the CNA's record in the CVE List.
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| kubeflow pipelines | < 2.16.1 |
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-ghgh-57qv-h687 | Go | github.com/kubeflow/pipelines | <0.0.0-20260420170029-186dd1f3b040 | 0.0.0-20260420170029-186dd1f3b040 |
Red Hat
Red Hat rates this Important.
This vulnerability is rated as Important because any authenticated user in a multi-tenant environment can bypass access controls to alter or destroy shared pipeline definitions, causing broad integrity and availability impacts across projects. In Red Hat OpenShift AI deployments providing shared Kubeflow Pipelines, the API server fails to enforce authorization checks on global pipeline resources that lack a namespace designation. Consequently, low-privileged users can modify or remove workflows relied upon by other teams without requiring cluster administrator privileges.
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-api-server-v2-rhel9 | Under investigation | |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-driver-rhel9 | Under investigation | |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-launcher-rhel9 | Under investigation | |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-persistenceagent-v2-rhel9 | Under investigation | |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-scheduledworkflow-v2-rhel9 | Under investigation |
Contains Red Hat Security Data © Red Hat, Inc., licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: https://access.redhat.com/security/data. Modified: reformatted. Red Hat's page for CVE-2026-88984.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to this record's weaknesses, as MITRE names them. Credits. More on the page of CWE-285 (16).