{"id":"CVE-2026-61850","published":"2026-10-30T20:17:11Z","modified":"2026-10-30T20:17:11Z","title":"Kargo manages and automates the promotion of software artifacts","vendor":"akuity","product":"kargo","tier":"core","eol":null,"description":{"text":"Kargo manages and automates the promotion of software artifacts. From 0.6.0 until 1.8.14, 1.9.9, and 1.10.8, two authorization flaws in the `project-scoped RBAC API` let an authenticated user with delegated permission to manage a Project's `Roles` or `ServiceAccounts` confer permissions exceeding the user's own. A user authorized to edit `Roles` can create, replace, or add rules granting permissions not held by the user; a user authorized to edit a Role's ServiceAccount can bind an identity, including the user's own, to a more powerful Role. A Kargo Role comprises a `ServiceAccount, Role, and RoleBinding` in the Project namespace. Changes are written using the API server's broadly privileged credentials after only a coarse resource-kind edit check, rather than checking each permission being conferred. This permits escalation to Project-administrator access, disclosure of `Project Secrets` and credentials, and modification or deletion of Project resources. Stolen Git, container-registry, or Helm-registry credentials can extend confidentiality and integrity impacts to those external systems. Escalation remains limited to Projects where the attacker already has RBAC-management delegation and does not itself grant cluster-wide or cross-Project access. Default non-administrator roles do not permit these operations; exploitation requires an `administrator-created custom role` granting the relevant permissions and control of an account assigned that role. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.14, 1.9.9, and 1.10.8.","provenance":"source","from":"NVD"},"summary":null,"cvss":{"score":9.3,"severity":"CRITICAL","version":"4.0","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:L/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X","provenance":"source","from":"NVD"},"epss":null,"kev":null,"vulncheckKev":null,"exploited":false,"otx":{"pulseCount":0,"pulses":[],"provenance":"machine"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-269","name":"Improper Privilege Management"}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/commit/19639678811b486bddb014dabb25397771f3941e","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/commit/50d29c10153965114f903645c83eadbe7bf58d3f","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/commit/5ab7c4216a4151f55ea8ef9ff3b9f884dd322578","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/commit/72fadd3600b35e6dce67042eb686720a48b45fa3","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/releases/tag/v1.10.8","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/releases/tag/v1.11.0-rc.1","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/releases/tag/v1.8.14","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/releases/tag/v1.9.9","tags":[]},{"url":"https://github.com/akuity/kargo/security/advisories/GHSA-wp4p-hr79-q4g8","tags":[]}],"techniques":[],"reports":[],"affected":[],"advisories":[],"euvd":{"id":"EUVD-2026-114371","url":"https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-114371","exploited":false,"exploitedSince":null,"provenance":"source"},"exploits":[],"exploitSources":null,"exploitRefs":[],"flow":[],"timeline":[{"date":"2026-10-30","kind":"published","label":"Published (NVD)","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-61850","provenance":"source"}],"speed":{"daysToPublicExploit":null,"firstExploitFrom":null,"daysToKev":null},"priority":{"score":6.5,"factors":[{"name":"In a KEV catalog","points":0.0,"detail":"not listed"},{"name":"Recent KEV listing","points":0.0,"detail":"not listed"},{"name":"Known ransomware use","points":0.0,"detail":"not known"},{"name":"EPSS percentile","points":0.0,"detail":"no EPSS score"},{"name":"Named in threat reports","points":0.0,"detail":"0 reports"},{"name":"Public exploit code","points":0.0,"detail":"none found"},{"name":"Mentioned in OTX pulses","points":0.0,"detail":"0 pulses"},{"name":"CVSS severity","points":6.51,"detail":"base score 9.3"},{"name":"End-of-life product","points":0.0,"detail":"supported or unknown"}]}}