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Orca Security: Critical Jupyter Enterprise Gateway Vulnerabilities
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Orca Security: Critical Jupyter Enterprise Gateway Vulnerabilities

Orca Security discloses three critical unauthenticated vulnerabilities in Jupyter Enterprise Gateway's Kubernetes manifest rendering pipeline: CVE-2026-44182 (YAML injection via unsanitized environment variables allowing creation of privileged pods/secrets), CVE-2026-44181 (Server-Side Template Injection via KERNEL_XXX env vars in the Jinja2 rendering path, enabling arbitrary Python/OS code execution), and CVE-2026-44180 (bypass of the _enforce_prohibited_ids control that blocks UID/GID 0 kernels, enabling container escape). All affect versions before 3.3.0 and can lead to full Kubernetes cluster compromise in multi-tenant or internet-facing deployments.

TL;DR Three critical unauthenticated CVEs (CVSS up to 10.0) in Jupyter Enterprise Gateway's Jinja2-based K8s manifest rendering allow YAML injection, SSTI, and privileged-pod creation leading to full cluster compromise.

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  • CVE-2026-44182
  • CVE-2026-44181
  • CVE-2026-44180

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