Improper access control in CloudStack's annotation functionality allows unauthorized comment creation and disclosure.
The addAnnotation and listAnnotation APIs perform an ownership check when an entity's UUID is specified, but fail to honor its result correctly. This lets any authenticated user write annotations to, and disclose existing annotations/comments on, an entity they don't own by simply supplying its UUID.
This issue affects Apache CloudStack: from 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue.
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Fri, 21 Aug 2026 20:30:00 +0000
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Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:45:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in the cluster-backup-operator. An attacker with write access to the backup storage location or the ability to create a Velero Backup object can inject malicious Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) resources into a backup. When this tampered backup is restored, the operator processes the malicious content, leading to a privilege escalation from backup-namespace-admin to hub cluster-admin. This allows the attacker to gain administrative control over the entire cluster. | Improper access control in CloudStack's annotation functionality allows unauthorized comment creation and disclosure. The addAnnotation and listAnnotation APIs perform an ownership check when an entity's UUID is specified, but fail to honor its result correctly. This lets any authenticated user write annotations to, and disclose existing annotations/comments on, an entity they don't own by simply supplying its UUID. This issue affects Apache CloudStack: from 4.15.0.0 through 4.20.3.0 and from 4.21.0.0 through 4.22.1.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 4.20.3.1 or 4.22.1.1 or later, which fixes the issue. |
| Title | cluster-backup-operator: cluster-backup-operator: Velero Restore includes cluster-scoped RBAC resources with no exclusion — tampered backup yields hub cluster-admin | Apache CloudStack: Unauthorised comment creation and disclosure |
| Weaknesses | CWE-284 | |
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Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:15:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in the cluster-backup-operator. An attacker with write access to the backup storage location or the ability to create a Velero Backup object can inject malicious Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) resources into a backup. When this tampered backup is restored, the operator processes the malicious content, leading to a privilege escalation from backup-namespace-admin to hub cluster-admin. This allows the attacker to gain administrative control over the entire cluster. | |
| Title | cluster-backup-operator: cluster-backup-operator: Velero Restore includes cluster-scoped RBAC resources with no exclusion — tampered backup yields hub cluster-admin | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-862 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published: 2026-08-21T08:21:58.452Z
Updated: 2026-08-21T19:45:45.850Z
Reserved: 2026-07-27T18:09:26.783Z
Link: CVE-2026-66797
Updated: 2026-08-21T19:45:39.467Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-21T09:16:40.577
Modified: 2026-08-21T20:16:39.210
Link: CVE-2026-66797