CVE-2026-104795 Insights-runtime-extractor - Privilege Escalation

Insights-runtime-extractor DaemonSet contains a privilege escalation caused by insufficient privilege drop and execution of workload-controlled binaries, letting any tenant scheduling a pod escalate to root on the node, exploit requires scheduling a pod with a malicious binary.

CVSS base score 8.8 /10
High
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
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Details

Type
Privilege Escalation
Impact
Privilege Escalation, Remote Code Execution
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
14 October 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-250

Vendor fix

Update to a fixed version that properly drops privileges and validates executed binaries or apply security patches addressing privilege drop and execution controls.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

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