# CVE-2026-41068

> Vulnerability · severity: **HIGH** (CVSS 7.7).

## Description

Kyverno is a policy engine designed for cloud native platform engineering teams. The patch for CVE-2026-22039 fixed cross-namespace privilege escalation in Kyverno's `apiCall` context by validating the `URLPath` field. However, the ConfigMap context loader has the identical vulnerability — the `configMap.namespace` field accepts any namespace with zero validation, allowing a namespace admin to read ConfigMaps from any namespace using Kyverno's privileged service account. This is a complete RBAC bypass in multi-tenant Kubernetes clusters. An updated fix is available in version 1.17.2.

## Key facts

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-41068
- **Published:** 2026-04-24
- **CVSS severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS base score:** 7.7
- **CWE codes:** CWE-863

## Affected products

- `kyverno:kyverno`

## Primary sources

- NIST NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-41068

## Citation

> AI Analytics. CVE-2026-41068. Retrieved 2026-08-19 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/cve/CVE-2026-41068. Derived from NIST NVD. Licensed CC0.

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