# CVE-2026-79754: Nuclio: Kaniko build tempDir command injection

- Severity: CVSS 7.1 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=poc, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 1.17.2
- Published: 2026-09-02 · Updated: 2026-09-02

## Affected

- nuclio: from 1.6.19, fixed in 1.17.2

## Description

Nuclio is a "Serverless" framework for Real-Time Events and Data Processing. From version 1.6.19 to before version 1.17.2, Nuclio's Dashboard build pipeline does not sanitize the spec.build.tempDir field before using it to construct a shell command. When the Kaniko container builder is enabled, a user with function-create permission can inject shell metacharacters into this field and achieve arbitrary command execution inside the Dashboard container, which runs with a Kubernetes service account holding wildcard access to Secrets, Pods, Jobs, and Deployments in its namespace. This issue has been patched in version 1.17.2.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on nuclio, upgrade to a fixed version (1.17.2) per the references below.
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## References

- https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/security/advisories/GHSA-x44h-qmrv-mh72
- https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/pull/4190
- https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/commit/e3ed7de65c20c270a2035b7c27b25800e5b1e252
- https://github.com/nuclio/nuclio/releases/tag/1.17.2

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