GitHub Advisoryadvisory · Go
GHSA-gc3j-79f2-7vvw Fission: Cross-namespace event leakage via KubernetesWatchTrigger allows persistent tenant surveillance
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2026-49822
- Ecosystem
- Go
- Packages
- github.com/fission/fission
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-284, CWE-862
- Reviewed
- 2026-06-30
Affected packages
• Go github.com/fission/fission: < 1.24.0 → fixed in 1.24.0
Description
Summary
A low-privilege developer who could create a `KubernetesWatchTrigger` (KWT) in their own namespace was able to establish a persistent surveillance channel over any other namespace.
Details
Two independent flaws compounded:
1. `pkg/kubewatcher/kubewatcher.go::createKubernetesWatch` used `w.Spec.Namespace` (user-controlled) directly as the Watch target without checking it against `w.Namespace` (the KWT's own namespace). `kubewatcher` established the Watch
using its cluster-scoped service account and serialized every Pod/Service/Job change event as full JSON over HTTP POST to the attacker's function.
2. The validating webhook (`pkg/webhook/kuberneteswatchtrigger.go`) registered `verbs=create` only, so `update`/`patch` requests bypassed validation entirely.
A separate leak: an empty `spec.namespace` resolved to all namespaces via the controller's default, letting an attacker omit the field to surveil the entire cluster.
Impact
A tenant with `kuberneteswatchtriggers.fission.io/create` could continuously receive full event payloads for Pods, Services, and Jobs in any namespace — a persistent cross-tenant surveillance channel requiring no additional privileges.
Fix
Fixed in #3379 and released in v1.24.0.
• The validating webhook marker is extended to `verbs=create;update`.
• `Validate` rejects `KubernetesWatchTrigger.spec.namespace != metadata.namespace`.
• A controller guard in `createKubernetesWatch` rejects cross-namespace targets that bypass admission and coerces an empty `Spec.Namespace` to the trigger's own namespace.
Behavioural change
KubernetesWatchTriggers with an unset `spec.namespace` now watch only their own namespace instead of all namespaces. Anyone relying on the previous all-namespaces behaviour must create a separate KWT per namespace.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2026-49822 Fission is an open-source, Kubernetes-native serverless framework that simplifies the deployment of functions and applications on… vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/fission/fission/security/advisories/GHSA-gc3j-79f2-7vvw web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-49822 advisory
- https://github.com/fission/fission/pull/3379 web
- https://github.com/fission/fission/commit/e2b92663499f4dc3a1e2d38178f39c3c65e0134a web
- https://github.com/fission/fission package
- https://github.com/fission/fission/releases/tag/v1.24.0 web