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Advisory severityHigh8.8Red Hat Linux

High [CVE-2026-16745] backend port 8080 trusts x-forwarded-access-token without origin validation

This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-16745 affecting Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25, Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3, Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4.

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CVE-2026-16745
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxUnclassified
Open source advisory

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Summary

A flaw was found in odh-dashboard, the web console component of Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI). Due to incorrect network binding, a malicious actor within the cluster can bypass authentication and impersonate any user by providing an arbitrary access token.

This allows an attacker to gain unauthorized access to the Kubernetes API, potentially leading to arbitrary code execution, privilege escalation, or information disclosure. Important: This flaw allows for privilege escalation within the cluster by bypassing authentication.

It is due to the odh-dashboard backend binding to 0.0.0.0:8080 and trusting the x-forwarded-access-token header without origin validation. This enables any pod in the cluster to impersonate users by supplying an arbitrary token, circumventing the intended kube-rbac-proxy authentication.

Red Hat severity: Important — CVSS 8.8 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H). Weakness: CWE-346.

Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25; Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3; Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4. Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2026:53261, RHSA-2026:53263, RHSA-2026:53262, RHSA-2026:60520.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9:1785940823
  • rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9:1786109683
  • rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9:1786109665
  • rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9:1787347991
  • RHSA-2026:53261
  • RHSA-2026:53263
  • RHSA-2026:53262
  • RHSA-2026:60520

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9:1785940823, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9:1786109683, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9:1786109665, rhoai/odh-dashboard-rhel9:1787347991, RHSA-2026:53261, RHSA-2026:53263. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 17 days ago·verify at source

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