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title: "CVE-2026-117681: Konflux-ci - Privilege Escalation"
description: "Konflux-ci contains a privilege escalation caused by automatic disabling of TLS certificate verification in the user interface proxy for internal backend services, letting adjacent network attackers capture cluster-scoped tokens and gain full administrative control, exploit requires adjacent network access to intercept traffic."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-117681/
---

# CVE-2026-117681 Konflux-ci - Privilege Escalation

Konflux-ci contains a privilege escalation caused by automatic disabling of TLS certificate verification in the user interface proxy for internal backend services, letting adjacent network attackers capture cluster-scoped tokens and gain full administrative control, exploit requires adjacent network access to intercept traffic.

CVSS base score 8.0 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

EPSS

0.10% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-117681)

## Details

Type

Privilege Escalation

Impact

Privilege Escalation, Information Disclosure

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

31 October 2026

Updated

1 November 2026

Weakness

[CWE-295](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/295.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version with proper TLS verification enforcement.

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-2026-117681](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-117681)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-117681](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-117681)
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2563233](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2563233)

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