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high 7.5

CVE-2026-118761 json

Kubeflow Pipelines: Pipeline archive upload allows decompression bomb to exhaust server memory

published 11d ago modified 4d ago also EUVD-2026-113219 , GHSA-8fmv-6rg5-5924 , GO-2026-6899

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 42%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Kubeflow Pipelines enables users to build and deploy portable, scalable machine learning workflows. Prior to 2.18.0, the API server decompressed uploaded pipeline archives without adequately bounding expanded data while locating or reading the pipeline file. A small ZIP or gzip-compressed tar archive can consume disproportionately large memory and exhaust API-server resources. Multipart pipeline and pipeline-version upload processing performs decompression before namespace authorization, so a reachable caller does not need a successful pipeline-create authorization decision. URL-import handlers authorize before fetching and decompressing a remote archive. The amount of expansion required to interrupt service depends on deployment resource limits and concurrent activity, and no specific archive is guaranteed to crash every deployment. This issue is fixed in version 2.18.0.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/kubeflow/pipelines 0.0.0-20260831164314-ba9ae72cc860
  • kubeflow pipelines 2.18.0

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-118761 updated cvss 7.5

github.com/kubeflow/pipelines: Kubeflow Pipelines: Denial of Service via unbounded archive decompression

  • Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-driver-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-launcher-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-api-server-v2-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-persistenceagent-v2-rhel9, rhoai/odh-ml-pipelines-scheduledworkflow-v2-rhel9
    affected: workaround, no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
11d ago

Exploit prediction

0.50% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/kubeflow/pipelines
<0.0.0-20260831164314-ba9ae72cc860
1 listed version
0.0.0-20260831164314-ba9ae72cc860

Affected products

  • kubeflow pipelines

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-409 Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

References

Sources

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