CVE-2026-50237 PUBLISHED

Openshift/console: namespace tenant ssrf with egress bypass, catalog poisoning, and admin-mediated supply chain escalation via projecthelmchartrepository in openshift console

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 04.06.2026 Published: 11.08.2026 Updated: 11.08.2026

A Server-Side Request Forgery and supply chain flaw was found in the OpenShift Console Helm catalog proxy. A namespace tenant can plant a ProjectHelmChartRepository with an arbitrary URL that the console pod fetches server-side, bypassing tenant egress restrictions. Combined with catalog metadata poisoning and admin-mediated chart installation, this enables privilege escalation.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 7.4

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Versions Default: affected
Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Versions Default: affected

Workarounds

Review existing ProjectHelmChartRepository resources in tenant namespaces for unexpected URLs using: oc get projecthelmchartrepositories --all-namespaces -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.namespace}/{.metadata.name}: {.spec.connectionConfig.url}{"\n"}{end}'. Apply NetworkPolicy egress restrictions to the openshift-console namespace (note: requires allow-listing required console egress targets). Administrators should verify chart provenance before installing Helm charts from namespace-scoped repositories. Disable or restrict ProjectHelmChartRepository creation via RBAC if namespace tenants do not require custom Helm repositories.

Credits

  • Red Hat would like to thank Christopher Lusk (North Echo Security Research) for reporting this issue.

References

Problem Types

  • Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) CWE