IBM Turbonomic prometurbo agent 8.16.0 through 8.17.6 IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management grants excessive cluster‑wide permissions, including unrestricted read access to all secrets. An attacker that compromises the operator or its service account can exfiltrate sensitive credentials, escalate privileges, and potentially achieve full cluster compromise.

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Solution

IBM strongly recommends addressing the vulnerability now by re-installing a version of prometurbo with the required fixes. Product(s)Version(s) number and/or range Remediation/Fix/InstructionsIBM Turbonomic prometurbo agent8.18.0 Follow the installation instructions https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/tarm/8.19.4 from the IBM Turbonomic documentation


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History

Fri, 01 May 2026 17:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:45:00 +0000

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Description IBM Turbonomic prometurbo agent 8.16.0 through 8.17.6 IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management grants excessive cluster‑wide permissions, including unrestricted read access to all secrets. An attacker that compromises the operator or its service account can exfiltrate sensitive credentials, escalate privileges, and potentially achieve full cluster compromise.
Title IBM Turbonomic Prometurbo agent used by IBM Turbonomic Application Resource Management is affected by a single vulnerability
First Time appeared Ibm
Ibm turbonomic Prometurbo Agent
Weaknesses CWE-269
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:ibm:turbonomic_prometurbo_agent:8.16.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:turbonomic_prometurbo_agent:8.17.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Ibm
Ibm turbonomic Prometurbo Agent
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: ibm

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-01T16:37:57.048Z

Reserved: 2026-04-15T19:41:36.801Z

Link: CVE-2026-6389

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-05-01T16:37:52.894Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-04-30T22:16:26.207

Modified: 2026-05-01T15:27:15.287

Link: CVE-2026-6389

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-05-02T00:15:06Z

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