CVE-2026-118758
HighCVSS 7.5Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk45th percentile - higher than 45% of all known CVEs
Summary
In Kubeflow Pipelines prior to 2.18.0, the volume artifact handler GET /artifacts/get?source=volume did not confine a caller-supplied file path to the selected volume. A caller knowing an existing mounted volume could use path traversal to read files outside it when the artifact-serving process could read them.
Risk Assessment
Unauthorized reading of files outside the volume is possible, potentially exposing data or system configuration.
Recommendation
Update Kubeflow Pipelines to version 2.18.0 or later and enable authentication and namespace authorization.
Other vulnerabilities in Kubeflow Pipelines
See all- CVE-2026-54745Critical
Kubeflow Pipelines before version 2.17.0 has an unauthenticated SSRF vulnerability in the /_proxy/ route in frontend/server/proxy-middleware.ts. The _routePathWithReferer() function accepts an arbitrary attacker-controlled HTTP or HTTPS target and passes its origin to createProxyMiddleware without a host allowlist or filtering for loopback, link-local, RFC1918, or cluster-local addresses. The route is accessible without authorization, allowing requests to be forwarded to internal services and responses returned to the attacker. This issue is fixed in version 2.17.0.
- CVE-2026-118761High
In Kubeflow Pipelines prior to 2.18.0, the API server decompressed uploaded pipeline archives without adequately bounding expanded data while locating or reading the pipeline file. A small ZIP or gzip-compressed tar archive can consume disproportionately large memory and exhaust API-server resources. Multipart pipeline and pipeline-version upload processing performs decompression before namespace authorization, so a reachable caller does not need a successful pipeline-create authorization decision. This is fixed in version 2.18.0.
- CVE-2026-118760Medium
In Kubeflow Pipelines from 0.5.1 until 2.17.0, frontend artifact routes did not check whether an authenticated user was authorized to access the requested namespace. A user knowing an artifact location could select another tenant's namespace or omit the namespace to read artifact contents such as datasets, models, or pipeline outputs.
- CVE-2026-118759High
In Kubeflow Pipelines prior to 2.18.0, the GET /apis/v1alpha1/runs/{run_id}/nodes/{node_id}/log handler retrieved logs without authorizing the caller against the selected run. A caller knowing a run ID and pod or node identifier could read logs with the API server's permissions, and for live logs the node ID was accepted as a pod name without verifying pod membership in the run.
Original NVD description (English source)
Kubeflow Pipelines enables users to build and deploy portable, scalable machine learning workflows. Prior to 2.18.0, the volume artifact handler for GET /artifacts/get?source=volume did not confine a caller-supplied file path to the selected volume. A caller who can reach the route and identify an existing mounted volume can use path traversal to read files outside that volume when the artifact-serving process can read them. The frontend pod serves the request when artifact proxying is disabled, while the selected namespace's artifact-service pod serves it when proxying is enabled. A deployment with authentication disabled requires no application credentials; in multi-user deployments, the caller ordinarily must be authorized for the supplied namespace. This issue is fixed in version 2.18.0.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

