CVE-2026-62371
8.8 HIGHpublic exploit availablePublished 2026-09-21 · Updated 2026-09-24
AI risk analysis
- Summary
- The flaw allows an attacker with permission to create or update NodeUpgradeJob resources to inject shell metacharacters, leading to arbitrary command execution with the privileges of the upgrade process.
- Exploitability
- Exploitation requires an attacker to have permission to create or update NodeUpgradeJob resources and knowledge of the affected fields. The exploit is moderately hard to execute.
- Blast radius
- If exploited, the attack could compromise node confidentiality, integrity, and availability on targeted edge nodes.
- Detection
- No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
- Prioritized remediation
- Upgrade to KubeEdge 1.21.2, 1.22.2, or 1.23.1.
Analysis generated locally by qwen2.5:7b-instruct (no data left the box). AI-assisted — verify against primary sources before acting.
NVD description
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. From 1.12.0 until 1.21.2, 1.22.2, and 1.23.1, the v1alpha2 NodeUpgradeJob handler in edge/pkg/taskmanager/actions/nodeupgradejob.go concatenates authenticated user-controlled spec.version and spec.image values into the keadm upgrade edge shell command. A user with permission to create or update NodeUpgradeJob resources can supply shell metacharacters in either field, causing arbitrary commands to execute on targeted edge nodes with the privileges of the upgrade process and compromising node confidentiality, integrity, and availability. This issue is fixed in versions 1.21.2, 1.22.2, and 1.23.1.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-78
Public exploit & PoC references
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.21.md
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.22.md
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.23.md
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/552af457a4c7ce80ea1678ab5889f475b36ea103
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/657b745bebcdd7a221eb34c0aac13231ef12c37f
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/b72db7f8a0f7be23261b4349eab33024b2007df0
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7028
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7029
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7030
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.21.2
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.22.2
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.23.1
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/security/advisories/GHSA-5jpj-293f-rhvj
All references
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.21.md
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.22.md
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.23.md
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/552af457a4c7ce80ea1678ab5889f475b36ea103
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/657b745bebcdd7a221eb34c0aac13231ef12c37f
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/b72db7f8a0f7be23261b4349eab33024b2007df0
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7028
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7029
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7030
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.21.2
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.22.2
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.23.1
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/security/advisories/GHSA-5jpj-293f-rhvj
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