# CVE-2026-44182: Jupyter Enterprise Gateway Has Kubernetes Manifest Injection via Jinja2 Template Rendering

- Also known as: GHSA-CFW7-6C5V-2WJQ, PYSEC-2026-362
- Severity: CVSS 10.0 (Critical), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 3.3.0
- Published: 2026-07-16 · Updated: 2026-07-17

## Affected

- jupyter-server enterprise\_gateway: fixed in 3.3.0
- jupyter-enterprise-gateway (PyPI): fixed in 3.3.0

## Description

Jupyter Enterprise Gateway launches remote Jupyter Notebook kernels across distributed clusters like Apache Spark, Kubernetes, and Docker Swarm. In versions prior to 3.3.0, the server interpolates untrusted environment variables (e.g., KERNEL_XXX) into Kubernetes manifests without YAML-aware escaping, enabling YAML injection attacks. Attackers can inject new fields, overwrite critical fields (e.g., duplicate securityContext keys, where the last one prevails), and inject document boundaries (--- for new documents, ... for end-of-document) to generate multiple resources, potentially creating arbitrary types, such as privileged pods. The Jinja2 template for the Kubernetes manifest contains several kernel_xxx variables, such as kernel_working_dir that are used when rendering the manifest and are all vectors for YAML injection. This issue has been fixed in version 3.3.0.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on jupyter-server enterprise\_gateway, jupyter-enterprise-gateway, upgrade to a fixed version (3.3.0) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/jupyter-server/enterprise_gateway/security/advisories/GHSA-cfw7-6c5v-2wjq
- https://github.com/jupyter-server/enterprise_gateway/releases/tag/v3.3.0

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