# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-15218"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-17T13:39:18.673Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-19T11:45:01.619Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-15218"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-15218.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-15218"
title: "Models-as-a-service: red hat openshift ai: maas-api and maas-controller serviceaccounts with excessive permissions lead to privilege escalation"
summary: "A flaw was found in the maas-api and maas-controller ServiceAccounts within Red Hat OpenShift AI. These ServiceAccounts are granted cluster-wide permissions that exceed their operational requirements. An attacker who compromises the identity of these ServiceAccounts, either through a remote code execution vulnerability or by creating a malicious pod in the same namespace, could exploit these excessive permissions. This could lead to full cluster administrator privileges through the creation of new ClusterRoleBindings or the disclosure of sensitive information by accessing all secrets across the cluster."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThan":"*","changes":[{"at":"d7099eabc2c52bb5328cb7a9dd137cc2ea90dd53","status":"unaffected"}]}],"packageName":"maas-api","collectionURL":"https://github.com/opendatahub-io/models-as-a-service","defaultStatus":"unknown"},{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"*"}],"packageName":"maas-controller","collectionURL":"https://github.com/opendatahub-io/models-as-a-service","defaultStatus":"unaffected"},{"versions":[{"version":"1787153683","status":"unaffected","versionType":"rpm","lessThan":"*"}],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4","packageName":"rhoai/odh-maas-api-rhel9","collectionURL":"https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/","defaultStatus":"affected"},{"versions":[{"version":"1791790095","status":"unaffected","versionType":"rpm","lessThan":"*"}],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.4","packageName":"rhoai/odh-maas-controller-rhel9","collectionURL":"https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/","defaultStatus":"affected"}]

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