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title: "CVE-2026-104795: Insights-runtime-extractor - Privilege Escalation"
description: "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."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-104795/
---

# 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

Required

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104795)

## 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](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/250.html)

## 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.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104795](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-104795)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-104795](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-104795)
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2543917](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2543917)

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