CVE-2026-88981
Kubeflow Pipelines: Unauthenticated SSRF through artifact provider endpoints
What happened?
Kubeflow Pipelines enables users to build and deploy portable, scalable machine learning workflows. Prior to 2.18.0, the frontend artifact download path for source=s3 or source=minio accepts providerInfo.Params.endpoint, and the archived pod-log path accepts S3-compatible endpoint metadata from workflow status, without requiring those endpoints to match operator-controlled storage configuration. In the shipped authorization-disabled standalone configuration, an unauthenticated caller can make the shared ml-pipeline-ui pod connect to arbitrary reachable hosts and return response data; requests may also reveal an access-key identifier when signed with configured object-store credentials. Multi-user secret-backed metadata remains restricted to the server namespace. This issue is fixed in version 2.18.0.
Affected software and versions
| Software | Version information | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| pipelineskubeflow | affected: < 2.18.0 | See vendor advisory |
Version information comes from the source record and can include unaffected products and exceptions. Distribution packages may contain backported fixes: an older upstream version alone does not prove a server is affected.
Is it being exploited?
This CVE was not listed in the CISA catalogue at our last retrieval. This does not establish that exploitation is absent.
How to respond
- Confirm the product, installed package version, and any configuration requirements in the vendor advisory.
- Follow the vendor’s remediation or workaround guidance in the references below. Structured fixed-version data is unavailable here; the publisher’s description may include a fix or workaround.
- Restart affected services if required, then verify the running version. Known exploitation may warrant investigation as well as patching.
Sources and remediation references
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-88981
- https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/security/advisories/GHSA-3pcj-8j5w-jmxq
- https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/pull/14349
- https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/commit/0b77f9b07bfb9860dc90106003bbc3e2fe0e0965
- https://github.com/kubeflow/pipelines/releases/tag/2.18.0