Junglewise Threat Intelligence

CVE-2026-32769: Fullchain's Invalid NetworkPolicy enables a malicious actor to pivot into another namespace

CVE-2026-32769 · Severity: critical · CVSS 9.8 · Published 2026-03-16

Vendors: Go.

Executive brief

### Impact

Due to a mis-written NetworkPolicy, a malicious actor can pivot from a subverted application to any Pod out of the origin namespace. This breaks the security-by-default property expected as part of the deployment program, leading to a potential lateral movement.

### Patch

Removing the `inter-ns` NetworkPolicy patches the vulnerability. If updates are not possible in production environments, we recommend to manually delete it and update as soon as possible.

### Workaround

Given your context, delete the failing network policy that should be prefixed by `inter-ns-` in the target namespace. You can use the following to delete all matching network policy. If unsure of the outcome, please do it manually.

```bash for ns in $(kubectl get ns -o jsonpath='{.items[*].metadata.name}' | tr ' ' '\n' | grep '^ns-'); do kubectl -n "$ns" get networkpolicy -o name \ | grep '^networkpolicy.networking.k8s.io/inter-ns-' \ | xargs -r kubectl -n "$ns" delete done ```

Affected products

  • Go github.com/ctfer-io/fullchain

References