CVE-2026-70496

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.99.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

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

Score 9.9 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-19. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.9; 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-2026-62678 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.9EG
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: 0.6%CVSS: 9.9Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. The operator's ClusterRole has permissions equivalent to a cluster administrator, allowing it to impersonate other entities, write Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) configurations, approve Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), and manage ManifestWork. This grants excessive privileges beyond what is necessary for the operator's intended function, potentially leading to privilege escalation within the cluster.

CVSS v3
9.9
EG Score
9.9CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
45
EG Risk 45/100

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)
Severity99% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.5% × 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
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
46th
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 (9.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.9 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). 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

August 19, 2026

Last Modified

October 26, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Oct 26, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red Hat

2511032 – (CVE-2026-70496) CVE-2026-70496 search-v2-operator: search-v2-operator: operator ClusterRole is cluster-admin equivalent via impersonate, RBAC write, CSR approve, and ManifestWork

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511032
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-70496 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-70496
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386

Patch Availability(6)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876888272026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876820332026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876816862026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876821122026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876816742026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/search-collector-rhel9:17872295392026-08-26redhat

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.

Weakness Classification(1)

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

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 31× in last 7d / 145× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 633 refreshes on record for this CVE.

A repeat, a row identical to one the same pipeline wrote less than 10 seconds earlier, is not a separate refresh and is not counted. None are among the latest 100 rows. The 533 oldest rows on record are not shown and were not checked, so the counts can still include repeats.

  1. 2026-11-02 07:55 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 07:55 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 07:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  4. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 08:33 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 08:33 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-01 08:32 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  8. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  9. 2026-10-31 09:09 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-31 09:09 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-31 09:09 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  12. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  13. 2026-10-30 09:46 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-30 09:46 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-30 09:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  16. 2026-10-29 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  17. 2026-10-29 10:23 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-29 10:23 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-29 10:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  20. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 46th percentile
  21. 2026-10-28 11:01 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-28 11:01 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-28 11:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  24. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  25. 2026-10-27 10:46 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-27 10:46 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-27 10:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  3. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  4. 2026-10-26 11:23 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-26 11:23 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-26 11:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  7. 2026-10-25 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  8. 2026-10-25 14:08 UTCEG score recompute
  9. 2026-10-25 12:00 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-25 12:00 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-25 12:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  12. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  13. 2026-10-24 12:35 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-24 12:35 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-24 12:34 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  16. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  17. 2026-10-23 13:11 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-23 13:11 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-23 13:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  20. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  21. 2026-10-22 13:46 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-22 13:46 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-22 13:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  24. 2026-10-21 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  25. 2026-10-21 14:23 UTCEG score recompute
  26. 2026-10-21 14:23 UTCVendor advisory
  27. 2026-10-21 14:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  28. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  29. 2026-10-20 14:24 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-10-20 14:24 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-10-20 14:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  32. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 45th percentile
  33. 2026-10-19 13:24 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-10-19 13:24 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-10-19 13:23 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  36. 2026-10-18 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  37. 2026-10-18 13:01 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-10-18 13:01 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  39. 2026-10-18 03:18 UTCEG score recompute
  40. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  41. 2026-10-17 13:38 UTCEG score recompute
  42. 2026-10-17 13:38 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-17 13:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  44. 2026-10-16 16:43 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  45. 2026-10-16 14:15 UTCEG score recompute
  46. 2026-10-16 14:15 UTCVendor advisory
  47. 2026-10-16 14:14 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  48. 2026-10-15 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  49. 2026-10-15 14:11 UTCEG score recompute
  50. 2026-10-15 14:11 UTCVendor advisory
  51. 2026-10-15 14:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  52. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  53. 2026-10-14 08:56 UTCEG score recompute
  54. 2026-10-14 08:56 UTCVendor advisory
  55. 2026-10-14 08:55 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  56. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  57. 2026-10-13 05:21 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-10-13 05:21 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-10-13 05:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  60. 2026-10-12 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  61. 2026-10-12 15:43 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-10-12 05:57 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-10-12 05:57 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  64. 2026-10-11 19:29 UTCEG score recompute
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  71. 2026-10-08 07:40 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-10-08 07:40 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-08 07:40 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-xg68-vc28-3f79 · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  74. 2026-10-07 23:48 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 44th percentile
  75. 2026-10-07 10:26 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-70496?
CVE-2026-70496 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on August 19, 2026. A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. The operator's ClusterRole has permissions equivalent to a cluster administrator, allowing it to impersonate other entities, write Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) configurations, approve Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), and manage ManifestWork. This…
When was CVE-2026-70496 made public?
CVE-2026-70496 was made public on August 19, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on August 19, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of October 26, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-70496 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-70496 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (46th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-70496?
CVE-2026-70496 has a CVSS base score of 9.9 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-70496?
A fix for CVE-2026-70496 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-70496 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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