CVE-2026-6389: IBM Turbonomic Prometurbo Agent

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

IBM Turbonomic prometurbo agent 8.16.0 through 8.17.6 IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management grants excessive cluster‑wide permissions, including unrestricted read access to all secrets. An attacker that compromises the operator or its service account can exfiltrate sensitive credentials, escalate privileges, and potentially achieve full cluster compromise.

Affected products

• IBM Turbonomic Prometurbo Agent: from 8.16.0, before 8.18.0 (fixed in 8.18.0)

Published 2026-04-30. Last modified 2026-06-17.