High severity · published Oct 29, 2026
CVE-2026-118758
Kubeflow: Unauthenticated path traversal to arbitrary file read on ml-pipeline-ui via the volume artifact source
New
7.5
CVSS
–
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
Kubeflow Pipelines enables users to build and deploy portable, scalable machine learning workflows. Prior to 2.18.0, the volume artifact handler for GET /artifacts/get?source=volume did not confine a caller-supplied file path to the selected volume. A caller who can reach the route and identify an existing mounted volume can use path traversal to read files outside that volume when the artifact-serving process can read them. The frontend pod serves the request when artifact proxying is disabled, while the selected namespace's artifact-service pod serves it when proxying is enabled. A deployment with authentication disabled requires no application credentials; in multi-user deployments, the caller ordinarily must be authorized for the supplied namespace. This issue is fixed in version 2.18.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
PI
pipelines · kubeflow
< 2.18.0 · source: vendor
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-118758
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-118758
x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/security/advisories/GHSA-2fg9-fx2f-439r
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/pull/13677
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/commit/4d9bc5ab12b67efedb3923ef428a399cb445cf5f
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/blob/2.18.0/docs/operator-guides/upgrade-2.18.md#custom-storage-configuration-and-rollout
x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/releases/tag/2.18.0
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