# CVE-2026-10079: Stackrox: stackrox: deploy-time policy enforcement and visibility bypass via label injection

- Severity: CVSS 8.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-31 · Updated: 2026-07-31

## Affected

- advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8: version range not reported
- advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8: version range not reported
- advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-v4-rhel8: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes (RHACS). When processing Kubernetes Deployments, ACS replaces deployment identity metadata based on the openshift.io/encoded-deployment-config label. A user with permission to create Deployments can set this label to "null", causing ACS to treat the workload as having empty UID, name and labels and namespace "default". This bypasses deploy-time policy detection and enforcement visibility, prevents correct persistence in Central and breaks violation reporting and compliance correlation for the affected deployment.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-main-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-roxctl-rhel8, advanced-cluster-security/rhacs-scanner-v4-rhel8, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-10079
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2483158

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