CVE-2026-75481 PUBLISHED

SkyPilot Authentication Bypass via Service Account Role Escalation

Assigner: VulnCheck
Reserved: 17.08.2026 Published: 17.08.2026 Updated: 17.08.2026

SkyPilot fails to validate that authenticated users are entitled to grant administrator roles when updating service account permissions. Attackers can create a service account, escalate it to administrator role, and authenticate with its bearer token to gain administrative control over all users and workspaces.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CVSS Score: 8.7

Product Status

Vendor skypilot-org
Product skypilot
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 0.13.1rc1 (incl.)

Credits

  • geo-chen reporter

References

Problem Types

  • Improper Privilege Management CWE