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TI-2026-23788 Aliases CVE-2026-30963GHSA-2ww6-hf35-mfjm

Capsule Namespace Hijacking via subresource

Priority MEDIUM 52CWE-20Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
High
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
Low · Low · Low
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

Capsule is a multi-tenancy and policy-based framework for Kubernetes. To defend against namespace hijacking achieved through update/patch operations on namespaces, Capsule uses a webhook to validate update requests targeting namespaces. However, in Kubernetes, the namespace/finalize and namespace/status subresource APIs can also modify various fields of a namespace, including the metadata field. Prior to version 0.13.0, the webhook does not define interception rules for these subresources. As a result, if a tenant administrator has permission to modify namespace/status or namespace/finalize, they can successfully perform namespace hijacking. Version 0.13.0 fixes the issue. Another mitigation is to add two subresources (namespaces and snamespaces/status with namespace/finalize within it) to the resources list in the ValidatingWebhookConfiguration rules.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00219 12th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Public exploit Yes 1 exploit referenceTagged by NVD
Fix Fixed capsule (projectcapsule): 0.13.0github.com/projectcapsule/capsule (Go): 0.13.0

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
Poc
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
projectcapsulecapsulebefore 0.13.00.13.0Patch availableCNA
—github.com/projectcapsule/capsule (Go)before 0.13.00.13.0Patch availableGHSA-2ww6-hf35-mfjm
  • capsule Vendorprojectcapsule Affected before 0.13.0 Fixed in 0.13.0 Patch available CNA
  • github.com/projectcapsule/capsule (Go) Vendor— Affected before 0.13.0 Fixed in 0.13.0 Patch available GHSA-2ww6-hf35-mfjm

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:projectcapsule:capsule:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 0.13.0Vulnerableprojectcapsule
  • cpe:2.3:a:projectcapsule:capsule:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 0.13.0 Vulnerable ·projectcapsule

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA capsule (projectcapsule) Fixed in 0.13.0
  • Fix · GHSA-2ww6-hf35-mfjm github.com/projectcapsule/capsule (Go) Fixed in 0.13.0 Advisory →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-30963
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-2ww6-hf35-mfjm

References

  • TI-2024-26614 Capsule tenant owner with "patch namespace" permission can hijack system namespaces CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.8
  • TI-2026-18364 Capsule TenantResource RawItems Cluster-Scoped Resource Creation Vulnerability CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9

Sources