Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. Prior to 0.13.7, ForbiddenListSpec.ExactMatch in pkg/api/forbidden_list.go sorts denied metadata keys case-insensitively and then uses sort.SearchStrings, which assumes byte-order sorting. When an administrator's forbidden list mixes capitalized and lowercase keys or otherwise has different case-insensitive and byte ordering, the binary search can return false for a key that is present. An authenticated tenant owner can then pass the missed key through api.ValidateForbidden and bypass configured namespace, Service, or delegated node metadata restrictions, potentially influencing cluster policies, network exposure, or scheduling outside the tenant boundary. Uniformly lowercase lists whose two orderings coincide are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.13.7.
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| Description | Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. Prior to 0.13.7, ForbiddenListSpec.ExactMatch in pkg/api/forbidden_list.go sorts denied metadata keys case-insensitively and then uses sort.SearchStrings, which assumes byte-order sorting. When an administrator's forbidden list mixes capitalized and lowercase keys or otherwise has different case-insensitive and byte ordering, the binary search can return false for a key that is present. An authenticated tenant owner can then pass the missed key through api.ValidateForbidden and bypass configured namespace, Service, or delegated node metadata restrictions, potentially influencing cluster policies, network exposure, or scheduling outside the tenant boundary. Uniformly lowercase lists whose two orderings coincide are not affected. This issue is fixed in version 0.13.7. | |
| Title | Capsule: Tenant owner bypasses Capsule's forbidden namespace/service/node label and annotation enforcement | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-697 CWE-863 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-09-18T16:29:23.339Z
Updated: 2026-09-22T14:57:51.810Z
Reserved: 2026-07-10T18:25:21.468Z
Link: CVE-2026-61672
Updated: 2026-09-22T14:57:39.997Z
Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-09-18T17:16:58.537
Modified: 2026-09-24T21:25:27.050
Link: CVE-2026-61672
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