CVE-2026-50237

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

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

Workarounds

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.

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

• SSVC:
• Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical Impact: partial

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-50237
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2484746

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