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Vulnerability record · CVE-2026-44938 · published 7 July 2026

CVE-2026-44938: Insufficiently protected credentials vulnerability

A vulnerability has been identified in Fleet's agent-side deployer, which did not filter security-sensitive keys from namespaceLabels in fleet.yaml (or BundleDeployment.spec.options.namespaceLabels) when applying them to the target namespace. An attacker with git push access to a Fleet-monitored repository could overwrite Pod Security Standards (PSS) enforcement labels on a target namespace. This allows the attacker to weaken admission controls and deploy workloads that PSS policies would otherwise block.

8.8 CVSS 3.1 High EPSS 0.44% · top 64.1% CWE-522 · Insufficiently protected credentials Awaiting Analysis
8.8CVSS 3.1 base score
0.44%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
0Affected product versions listed by NVD
2References
8 Jul 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

A vulnerability has been identified in Fleet's agent-side deployer, which did not filter security-sensitive keys from namespaceLabels in fleet.yaml (or BundleDeployment.spec.options.namespaceLabels) when applying them to the target namespace. An attacker with git push access to a Fleet-monitored repository could overwrite Pod Security Standards (PSS) enforcement labels on a target namespace. This allows the attacker to weaken admission controls and deploy workloads that PSS policies would otherwise block.

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

References

LinkTags
https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-44938
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-864g-863m-vcvq

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2026-44938), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-09-26). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.