CVE-2026-55225

HIGHPre-NVD 8.08.0
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 8.0 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-06-18. A secondary CVSS source baseline 8.0; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-78883 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-mw9r-p8xp-wx96 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

8.0EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.3%CVSS: 8.0Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations. In Strimzi 1.0.0 and earlier, an attacker who can create a Kafka custom resource can set Kafka.spec.entityOperator watchedNamespace to a target namespace, causing the Cluster Operator to create a Role with full Secret CRUD permissions there and bind it to the Entity Operator ServiceAccount in the attacker's namespace. The attacker can mint a token for that ServiceAccount and read or write Secrets in any target namespace where the Cluster Operator has been granted permissions, regardless of STRIMZI_NAMESPACE. This issue is fixed in versions 1.0.1 and 1.1.0.

CVSS v3
8.0
EG Score
8.0HIGHmedium confidence
EG Risk
36
EG Risk 36/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity80% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 8.0 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.3% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.3%
EPSS %ILE
22nd
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (8.0): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 8.0 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
8.0 HIGHCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.3% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-10-31). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

June 18, 2026

Last Modified

September 30, 2026

Advisory Details (6)

Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026
Patch available. Sources: github, github_pr, github_commit, github_release.
GitHub release Patch Available

1.1.0

Patch available: strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator 1.1.0

https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/1.1.0
GitHub release Patch Available

1.0.1

Patch available: strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator 1.0.1

https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/releases/tag/1.0.1
GitHub commit

commit f6c5207ba7ec (strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator)

Fix landed in strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator commit f6c5207ba7ec — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/commit/f6c5207ba7ec89b46ce6720b8638d647e556a261
GitHub commit

commit b3bfeffcc307 (strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator)

Fix landed in strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator commit b3bfeffcc307 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/commit/b3bfeffcc30754c3e62e6f4afd8a76942cac440d
GitHub pull request

Added enable flag for topic and user operators watched namespace

Fix merged in strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator PR #12844 on 2026-06-18 — awaiting tagged release

https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/pull/12844
GitHub advisoryMentions a patch (unverified)

Cross-namespace privilege escalation via `Kafka.spec.entityOperator` · Advisory · strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator · GitHub

https://github.com/strimzi/strimzi-kafka-operator/security/advisories/GHSA-mw9r-p8xp-wx96

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-55225(2)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(2)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatcluster-operator2026-08-12redhat
mavenio.strimzi:strimzi @ 1.0.1 (fixes <= 1.0.0)—ghsa

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Affected Packages

(1 across 1 ecosystem)
Maven(1)
PackageVulnerable rangeFix by version rangeDependents
io.strimzi:strimzi0.10.0 ... 1.0.0-RC2 (81 versions)
  • every version up to 1.0.1: fixed in 1.0.1
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Weakness Classification(3)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 11× in last 7d / 44× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

  1. 2026-11-02 16:45 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  2. 2026-11-01 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
  3. 2026-11-01 07:44 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-mw9r-p8xp-wx96 · GitHub severity HIGH · GitHub CVSS 8.0
  4. 2026-11-01 07:44 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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  7. 2026-10-30 03:14 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-30 03:14 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 22nd percentile
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  17. 2026-10-23 15:20 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-23 15:20 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-22 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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  1. 2026-10-17 03:24 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-10-17 03:24 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-16 16:42 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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  8. 2026-10-12 15:55 UTCEG score recompute
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  12. 2026-10-11 13:49 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 20th percentile
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  23. 2026-09-30 17:55 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-09-30 17:55 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.3% · 19th percentile
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  37. 2026-09-16 13:43 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-55225?
CVE-2026-55225 is a high-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on June 18, 2026. Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations. In Strimzi 1.0.0 and earlier, an attacker who can create a Kafka custom resource can set Kafka.spec.entityOperator watchedNamespace to a target namespace, causing the Cluster…
When was the CVE record for CVE-2026-55225 published?
The CVE record for CVE-2026-55225 was published on June 18, 2026. That is the record's publication date; the vulnerability itself may have been made public earlier. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 30, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-55225 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-55225 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (22nd percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-55225?
CVE-2026-55225 has a CVSS base score of 8.0 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-55225?
A fix for CVE-2026-55225 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-55225 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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