Paper/Archive/CVE-2026-61682

CVE-2026-61682

kcp-dev kcp — kcp front-proxy does not strip inbound X-Remote-* identity headers, allowing any authenticated client to inject groups/warrants and impersonate system:masters in any workspace

Description · from the CVE record

kcp is a Kubernetes-like control plane for form-factors and use-cases beyond Kubernetes and container workloads. Prior to 0.31.4 and 0.32.2, the kcp front-proxy does not remove inbound X-Remote-User, X-Remote-Group, or X-Remote-Extra-* identity headers before forwarding requests to shards. Any authenticated tenant can inject X-Remote-Group: system:masters, authorization.kcp.io/warrant, authentication.kcp.io/scopes, or a group used for per-workspace required-group gating, and the shard trusts these values as authenticated identity assertions. This allows cross-workspace impersonation, authorization bypass, and arbitrary reading, writing, or deletion of resources, secrets, RBAC data, APIExports, APIBindings, and LogicalClusters. This issue is fixed in versions 0.31.4 and 0.32.2.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
kcp< 0.31.4–CNA
kcp>= 0.32.0, < 0.32.2–CNA

Scores by source

GitHub_M (CNA)9.9CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refgithub.com/kcp-dev/kcp/security/advisories/GHSA-c8w2-fgvx-vhv4refgithub.com/kcp-dev/kcp/commit/7437cdcfec8f927d1a9bf1b2dd1e075d038e27carefgithub.com/kcp-dev/kcp/commit/f913ee890fb2fd9fa78e50c43474b078bfb6aeffrefgithub.com/kcp-dev/kcp/releases/tag/v0.31.4refgithub.com/kcp-dev/kcp/releases/tag/v0.32.2