CVE-2026-62182
KubeEdge: ConfigUpdateJob updateFields enables remote shell injection and code execution on edge nodes
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- GitHub_M
Description
KubeEdge is an open source system for extending native containerized application orchestration capabilities to hosts at Edge. From 1.21.0 until 1.21.2, 1.22.2, and 1.23.1, ConfigUpdateJob processing in edge/pkg/taskmanager/actions/configupdatejob.go concatenates authenticated user-controlled updateFields values into the keadm config-update command and executes it through a system shell. A user with permission to create or modify ConfigUpdateJob resources can include shell metacharacters in the complete --set value and cause arbitrary commands to execute on an enrolled target edge node with the privileges of the KubeEdge process handling the job. This issue is fixed in versions 1.21.2, 1.22.2, and 1.23.1.
Timeline
ID reserved
By GitHub_M
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 3 days later
· 3 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub_MCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Awaiting Analysis | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.48% · top 59% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/kubeedge/kubeedgeGHSA-m3c6-2p7h-cfr3 (opens in a new tab)
References (13)
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/security/advisories/GHSA-m3c6-2p7h-cfr3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7028 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7029 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/pull/7030 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/14f65fc6207787f266cbcb0dceac7f09a81bab2b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/6309a335c8e5e3c154b6bb0a09292f5c7dc598dc (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/commit/ee78415a36911c1a93e59a921c23b8e4ecd83e90 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.21.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.22.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/blob/master/CHANGELOG/CHANGELOG-1.23.md (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.21.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.22.2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
- https://github.com/kubeedge/kubeedge/releases/tag/v1.23.1 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISC
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-m3c6-2p7h-cfr3 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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