CVE-2026-18982: Red Hat Openshift Ai 2.25

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in the RHOAI training-operator. This vulnerability allows a user with standard edit or admin roles in any Kubernetes namespace to escalate their privileges. Through the creation of training jobs, an attacker can impersonate service accounts, access the host filesystem, and potentially execute arbitrary code remotely. This issue arises from the aggregation of training job permissions onto native Kubernetes edit and admin ClusterRoles, coupled with unrestricted PodTemplateSpec passthrough.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Ai 2.25: before 1785187053 (fixed in 1785187053)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Ai 3.3: before 1785188461 (fixed in 1785188461)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Ai 3.4: before 1784814352 (fixed in 1784814352); before 1787361677 (fixed in 1787361677)
• Red Hat Red Hat Openshift Ai 3.5: before 1786552271 (fixed in 1786552271); before 1786552250 (fixed in 1786552250)

Published 2026-08-10. Last modified 2026-09-21.