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CVE-2026-71208 (GCVE-0-2026-71208)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-05 06:59 – Updated: 2026-08-12 07:44

Title

KubeSphere - SSRF via Unvalidated Cluster CRD Connection Endpoint in Cluster Reconciliation

Summary

KubeSphere's cluster-controller reconciliation (pkg/utils/clusterclient/clusterclient.go, addCluster) processes every Cluster custom resource's connection configuration and immediately calls Discovery.ServerVersion against the CRD-specified Kubernetes API endpoint, which is parsed only for URL syntax (url.Parse) with no allow/deny-list for loopback, RFC1918 private ranges, link-local, or cloud-metadata addresses (e.g. 169.254.169.254).

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-05 13:20 UTC

CWE

CWE-918 - Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF)

Assigner

TuranSec

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ashikmd7/kubeSphere/blob/main/…	third-party-advisory
https://github.com/kubesphere/kubesphere	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
kubesphere	KubeSphere	Affected: 4.0.0 , ≤ 4.1.3-rc.0 (custom)

Date Public

2026-08-05 06:59

Credits

Ashik Mohamed (ashikmd7)

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GHSA-W56J-P32J-VMH4

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-05 09:31 – Updated: 2026-08-05 09:31

Details

KubeSphere's cluster-controller reconciliation (pkg/utils/clusterclient/clusterclient.go, addCluster) processes every Cluster custom resource's connection configuration and immediately calls Discovery().ServerVersion() against the CRD-specified Kubernetes API endpoint, which is parsed only for URL syntax (url.Parse) with no allow/deny-list for loopback, RFC1918 private ranges, link-local, or cloud-metadata addresses (e.g. 169.254.169.254). A user able to create or update a Cluster CRD can force the controller-manager and apiserver pods to issue outbound requests to arbitrary internal or metadata endpoints.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

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CVE-2026-71208 (GCVE-0-2026-71208)

GHSA-W56J-P32J-VMH4

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