CVE-2026-10840: openshift-pipelines-operator-rh: openshift-pipelines-operator: tekton-scheduler-rolebinding grants system:authenticated write access to Kueue and cert-manager resources

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.6

A flaw was found in the OpenShift Pipelines operator. The tekton-scheduler-rolebinding ClusterRoleBinding grants the system:authenticated group write access to Kueue and cert-manager custom resources via the tekton-scheduler-role ClusterRole. When Kueue or cert-manager CRDs are present on the cluster, any authenticated user can disrupt workload scheduling, tamper with scheduling priorities, delete other tenants' Workload objects, or induce cert-manager to overwrite TLS Secrets including the default ingress controller certificate.