CVE-2016-1906

33

FAUCET Score

CVE-2016-1906 describes a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in Openshift, affecting Kubernetes. Remote attackers can exploit this by modifying a build configuration from an allowed type to a disallowed type, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (CRITICAL) and low attack complexity, this vulnerability poses a significant risk. Despite its severity, there is no known exploit code available (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and it has received minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		Range not provided by sourceCPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:kubernetes:kubernetes:-:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.8CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

5.9

CvssVersion

3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

4.84%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

91.1%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0484 is in the 85th percentile among its peer group of 36,835 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (120)

gopatch availablevia ghsa

Product: github.com/openshift/originFixed in: 1.1.1

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.0Fixed in: openshift-0:3.0.2.0-0.git.45.423f434.el7ose

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: atomic-openshift-0:3.1.1.6-1.git.0.b57e8bd.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: heapster-0:0.18.2-3.gitaf4752e.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: jenkins-0:1.625.3-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-align-text-0:0.1.3-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-ansi-green-0:0.1.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-ansi-wrap-0:0.1.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-anymatch-0:1.3.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-array-unique-0:0.2.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-arr-diff-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-arr-flatten-0:1.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-arrify-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-async-each-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-binary-extensions-0:1.3.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-braces-0:1.8.2-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-capture-stack-trace-0:1.0.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-chokidar-0:1.4.1-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-configstore-0:1.4.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-create-error-class-0:2.0.1-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-deep-extend-0:0.3.2-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-duplexer-0:0.1.1-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-duplexify-0:3.4.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-end-of-stream-0:1.1.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-error-ex-0:1.2.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-es6-promise-0:3.0.2-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-event-stream-0:3.3.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-expand-brackets-0:0.1.4-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-expand-range-0:1.8.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-extglob-0:0.3.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-filename-regex-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-fill-range-0:2.2.3-1.el7aos

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Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-for-in-0:0.1.4-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-for-own-0:0.1.3-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-from-0:0.1.3-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-glob-base-0:0.3.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-glob-parent-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-got-0:5.2.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-graceful-fs-0:4.1.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-ini-0:1.1.0-6.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-binary-path-0:1.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-dotfile-0:1.0.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-equal-shallow-0:0.1.3-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-extendable-0:0.1.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-extglob-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-glob-0:2.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-npm-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-number-0:2.1.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-isobject-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-plain-obj-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-primitive-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-redirect-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-is-stream-0:1.0.1-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-kind-of-0:3.0.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-latest-version-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lazy-cache-0:1.0.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.assign-0:3.2.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.baseassign-0:3.2.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.basecopy-0:3.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.bindcallback-0:3.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.createassigner-0:3.1.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.defaults-0:3.1.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.getnative-0:3.9.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.isarguments-0:3.0.4-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.isarray-0:3.0.4-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.isiterateecall-0:3.0.9-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.keys-0:3.1.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lodash.restparam-0:3.6.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-lowercase-keys-0:1.0.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-map-stream-0:0.1.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-micromatch-0:2.3.5-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-mkdirp-0:0.5.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-nodemon-0:1.8.1-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-node-status-codes-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-normalize-path-0:2.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-object-assign-0:4.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-object.omit-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-optimist-0:0.4.0-5.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-osenv-0:0.1.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-os-homedir-0:1.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-os-tmpdir-0:1.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-package-json-0:2.3.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-parse-glob-0:3.0.4-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-parse-json-0:2.2.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-pause-stream-0:0.0.11-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-pinkie-0:2.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-pinkie-promise-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-prepend-http-0:1.0.1-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-preserve-0:0.2.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-ps-tree-0:1.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-randomatic-0:1.1.5-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-rc-0:1.1.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-read-all-stream-0:3.0.1-3.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-readdirp-0:2.0.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-regex-cache-0:0.4.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-registry-url-0:3.0.3-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-repeat-element-0:1.1.2-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-semver-0:5.1.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-semver-diff-0:2.1.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-slide-0:1.1.5-3.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-split-0:0.3.3-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-stream-combiner-0:0.2.1-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-string-length-0:1.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-strip-json-comments-0:1.0.2-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-success-symbol-0:0.1.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-through-0:2.3.4-4.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-timed-out-0:2.0.0-3.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-touch-0:1.0.0-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-undefsafe-0:0.0.3-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-unzip-response-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-update-notifier-0:0.6.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-url-parse-lax-0:1.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-uuid-0:2.0.1-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-write-file-atomic-0:1.1.2-2.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nodejs-xdg-basedir-0:2.0.0-1.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: nss_wrapper-0:1.0.3-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: openshift-ansible-0:3.0.35-1.git.0.6a386dd.el7aos

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: openvswitch-0:2.4.0-1.el7

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1Fixed in: origin-kibana-0:0.5.0-1.el7aos

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: kubernetes

Vendor Advisories (2)

goGHSA-m3fm-h5jp-q79pcritical

Authorization bypass in Openshift

redhatCVE-2016-1906Moderate

server: build config to a strategy that isn't allowed by policy

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:0070

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2016:0351

github.com / openshift/origin/issues/6556

github.com / openshift/origin/pull/6576