CapsuleConfiguration.Spec.NodeMetadata.ForbiddenLabels.Regex and ForbiddenAnnotations.Regex are never validated by any admission webhook. A Cluster Admin can persist a malformed regex to etcd without being blocked. Once stored, every Node CREATE, UPDATE, or PATCH request triggers regexp.MustCompile() in pkg/api/forbidden_list.go:36, which panics and crashes the node admission webhook — causing a cluster-wide Denial of Service for all Node operations.
CVE-2026-22872 (GHSA-qjjm-7j9w-pw72) reported that a Tenant Owner could create cluster-scoped resources (e.g. ClusterRole, ValidatingWebhookConfiguration) through a TenantResource, because the controller applies them with its cluster-admin ServiceAccount and SetNamespace is ineffective for cluster-scoped kinds. The v0.13.0 fix added a cluster-scope rejection guard, but only on the NamespacedItems selection path (ResourceReference.LoadResources -> IsNamespacedGVK, error "cluster-scoped kind … is not allowed"). The RawItems create path — the exact vector the original advisory named …
Capsule v0.13.2 webhook rules contain namespace/finalize (singular) instead of namespaces/finalize (plural). K8s requires plural. The finalize defense from CVE-2026-30963 fix is absent.
The Capsule Controller runs with cluster-admin privileges. Although the TenantResource RawItems processing logic forcibly sets the namespace, this is ineffective for cluster-scoped resources. Tenant administrators can leverage the Controller's elevated privileges to create cluster-scoped resources (such as ClusterRole and ValidatingWebhookConfiguration) that they cannot create directly, achieving cross-tenant privilege escalation and cluster-level attacks.
To defend against namespace hijacking achieved through update/patch operations on namespaces, Capsule uses a webhook to validate update requests targeting namespaces. However, in Kubernetes, the namespace/finalize and namespace/status subresource APIs can also modify various fields of a namespace, including the metadata field. The webhook does not define interception rules for these subresources. As a result, if a tenant administrator has permission to modify namespace/status or namespace/finalize, they can successfully perform …