CVE-2026-10533 - Openshift: openshift: non-admin user can bypass resourcequota and flood etcd with events causing cluster-wide api degradation

CVE-2026-10533 - Openshift: openshift: non-admin user can bypass resourcequota and flood etcd with events causing cluster-wide api degradation

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CVE ID :CVE-2026-10533
Published : June 1, 2026, 1:19 p.m. | 1 hour, 43 minutes ago
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.
Severity: 5.0 | MEDIUM
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