HIGH7.8

PYSEC-2026-838

OpenStack Kolla sudo privilege escalation vulnerability

Quick fix

PYSEC-2026-838 — kolla: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'kolla>=15.0.0.0rc1'

Details

A privilege escalation vulnerability exists in the sudo functionality of OpenStack Kolla git master 05194e7618. A misconfiguration in /etc/sudoers within a container can lead to increased privileges.

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Affected packages

PyPI/kolla

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 15.0.0.0rc1

Fixpip install --upgrade 'kolla>=15.0.0.0rc1'

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-38060[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/openstack/kolla/commit/2a4a8fce31c12114e8f472c24dd96864b5bd2bd2[WEB]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/kolla/+bug/1985784[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2124758[WEB]
https://github.com/openstack/kolla[WEB]
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2022-1589[WEB]
https://pypi.org/project/kolla[PACKAGE]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rvxr-pf5f-j2qj[ADVISORY]