CVE-2026-14251 (GCVE-0-2026-14251)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-07-15 07:01 – Updated: 2026-07-16 15:12
VLAI
Title
Gitops-operator: gitops-operator: missing allowednamespace check in reconcilerhook for clusterrole/role cases enables potential privilege escalation and dos
Summary
A flaw was found in the OpenShift GitOps operator. The ClusterRole reconciler does not validate resource ownership when reconciling ClusterRole objects. A namespace-scoped Argo CD instance can trigger deletion of a ClusterRole owned by a cluster-scoped Argo CD instance by crafting a name collision, resulting in a denial of service.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-14251 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2484710 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift GitOps     cpe:/a:redhat:openshift_gitops:1
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Date Public
2026-07-06 00:00
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Nebojša Jaćović for reporting this issue.
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