High [CVE-2026-50237] Namespace tenant SSRF with egress bypass, catalog poisoning, and admin-mediated supply chain escalation via ProjectHelmChartRepository in OpenShift Console
This high-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-50237 affecting Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.
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Summary
A Server-Side Request Forgery and supply chain flaw was found in the OpenShift Console Helm catalog proxy. A namespace tenant can plant a ProjectHelmChartRepository with an arbitrary URL that the console pod fetches server-side, bypassing tenant egress restrictions.
Combined with catalog metadata poisoning and admin-mediated chart installation, this enables privilege escalation. Red Hat severity: Important — CVSS 7.4 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L).
Weakness: CWE-918.
Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.2; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22.
Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2026:54206, RHSA-2026:54188, RHSA-2026:56789, RHSA-2026:56912, RHSA-2026:56854, RHSA-2026:60023, RHSA-2026:54545, RHSA-2026:54555, RHSA-2026:54583, RHSA-2026:54602, RHSA-2026:54770.
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 29 days ago·verify at source
- openshift4/ose-console:1786511587
- openshift4/ose-console:1786477760
- openshift4/ose-console:1787056403
- openshift4/ose-console:1787028559
- openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:1787054159
- openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:1787631382
- openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:1786540776
- openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:1786486822
- openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:1786534931
- openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:1786574043
- openshift4/ose-console-rhel9:1786607915
- RHSA-2026:54206
- RHSA-2026:54188
- RHSA-2026:56789
- RHSA-2026:56912
- RHSA-2026:56854
- RHSA-2026:60023
- RHSA-2026:54545
- RHSA-2026:54555
- RHSA-2026:54583
- RHSA-2026:54602
- RHSA-2026:54770
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 29 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- Review existing ProjectHelmChartRepository resources in tenant namespaces for unexpected URLs using: oc get projecthelmchartrepositories --all-namespaces -o jsonpath='{range .items[*]}{.metadata.namespace}/{.metadata.name}: {.spec.connectionConfig.url}{"\n"}{end}'. Apply NetworkPolicy egress restrictions to the openshift-console namespace (note: requires allow-listing required console egress targets). Administrators should verify chart provenance before installing Helm charts from namespace-scoped repositories. Disable or restrict ProjectHelmChartRepository creation via RBAC if namespace tenants do not require custom Helm repositories.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 29 days ago·verify at source
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