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1 vulnerability by defenseunicorns
CVE-2026-23634 (GCVE-0-2026-23634)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-16 19:14 – Updated: 2026-01-16 21:38
VLAI?
Title
Pepr Overly Permissive RBAC ClusterRole in Admin Mode
Summary
Pepr is a type safe K8s middleware. Prior to 1.0.5 , Pepr defaults to a cluster-admin RBAC configuration and does not explicitly force or enforce least-privilege guidance for module authors. The default behavior exists to make the “getting started” experience smooth: new users can experiment with Pepr and create resources dynamically without needing to pre-configure RBAC. This vulnerability is fixed in 1.0.5.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-272 - Least Privilege Violation
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| defenseunicorns | pepr |
Affected:
< 1.0.5
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