CVE-2026-10533 | A flaw was found in OpenShift Container Platform. Completed … | CVSS 5.0 MEDIUM

Description

A flaw was found in OpenShift Container Platform. Completed pods with restartPolicy: Never do not count toward ResourceQuota pod limits, and Kubernetes events are not quota-scoped. A non-privileged user who can create pods in a namespace can exploit this to generate a large volume of events that accumulate in etcd, causing API server performance degradation across the cluster.

Metadata

CVE ID: CVE-2026-10533
State: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 2026-06-01 11:32 UTC
Published: 2026-06-01 13:19 UTC
Last updated: 2026-06-08 14:13 UTC
Primary CWE: CWE-770
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Vendor / Product: Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
Sources: cve.org · NVD

Severity & Metrics

5.0 MEDIUM CVSS 3.1

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

SSVC — CISA Coordinator

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Tech. Impact: partial

Affected products (1)

Vendor	Product	Platform	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4	—	—

Weakness (CWE)

CWE	Source	Description
CWE-770	cna	Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

CVSS scores (1)

Score	Severity	Version	Source	Vector
5.0	MEDIUM	3.1	cna	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L

References (2)