CVE-2026-44180

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-44180
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-44180.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-44180
Aliases
Published
2026-07-16T21:59:37.875Z
Modified
2026-07-19T03:31:16.745270478Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Jupyter Enterprise Gateway: ContainerProcessProxy._enforce_prohibited_ids can be Bypassed
Details

Jupyter Enterprise Gateway launches remote Jupyter Notebook kernels across distributed clusters like Apache Spark, Kubernetes, and Docker Swarm. Versions 2.0.0rc1 and above prior to 3.3.0 have a prohibited UID and GID feature that by default prevents launching kernels with UID or GID 0 (root), and this restriction can be bypassed using a specially crafted KERNELUID or KERNELGID value. This input validation vulnerability allows running Jupyter kernels as root, which can be dangerous as it allows more attack surface, and may lead to container escapes, compromising the worker node and all workloads running on it. Repeated exploitation can compromise all worker nodes, and thus the entire Kubernetes cluster. It is possible to specify volume mounts, so one vector for a container escape is to use a hostPath R/W volume mount, use this UID/GID bypass to run as root, and then gain code execution in the underlying worker node by creating a crontab entry in the mounted host file system. This issue has been fixed in version 3.0.0.

Database specific
{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-20"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/44xxx/CVE-2026-44180.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitHub_M"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/jupyter-server/enterprise_gateway

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/jupyter-server/enterprise_gateway
Events
Database specific
{
    "source": [
        "AFFECTED_FIELD",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.0.0rc1"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.3.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.0rc1
v2.0.0rc2
v2.1.0
v2.1.1
v2.2.0
v2.2.0rc1
v2.2.0rc2
v2.3.0
v2.4.0
v2.5.0
v2.6.0
v3.*
v3.0.0
v3.0.0b0
v3.0.0rc0
v3.0.0rc1
v3.1.0
v3.2.0
v3.2.1
v3.2.2
v3.2.3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-44180.json"