Advisory record · GHSA-qf34-295c-26v8

Woodpecker: Privilege escalation via unrestricted serviceAccountName in the Kubernetes backend

CVSS 9.0 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.0028 · 20th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.0: 9.0 or more.

Published by the GitHub Advisory Database at 14 Jul 2026, 20:29 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known.

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v3	Go	<3.16.0	3.16.0
github.com/woodpecker-ci/woodpecker	Go	>=1.0.0, <=1.0.4	No fixed version yet
go.woodpecker-ci.org/woodpecker/v2	Go	<=2.8.3	No fixed version yet

Identifiers: GHSA-qf34-295c-26v8 · CVE-2026-61549 · GO-2026-5992
Weakness (CWE): CWE-269 · CWE-862
Tags: Privilege escalation
Broken access control
Published: 14 Jul 2026
Updated: 21 Jul 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.0	Critical	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0028, the 20th percentile, on 15 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:59 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:59 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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