Kubetier
  1. Use the escalate verb to bypass privilege-escalation prevention

  2. Patch own bound ClusterRole to add */* rules (must be a role already bound to you)

  3. Permissions expand via the existing binding.

    No bind is needed when patching an already-bound ClusterRole.

    Creating a new role and self-binding it requires bind clusterroles separately

Rights needed, any one set:

Note:

This is a by-design capability, not a CVE.

The escalate verb bypasses privilege-escalation prevention, so any identity holding it can grant permissions it does not already have.

No patch exists.

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