Portainer Community Edition is a lightweight service delivery platform for containerized applications that can be used to manage Docker, Swarm, Kubernetes and ACI environments. From 2.33.0 to before 2.33., Portainer proxies requests to Kubernetes clusters through a middleware layer (kubeClientMiddleware) that validates the requesting user's token before forwarding traffic to the cluster. When security.RetrieveTokenData returned an error, the middleware wrote an HTTP 403 response but was missing a return statement — execution continued into the handler with a nil tokenData value. The Kubernetes endpoints sit behind Portainer's outer AuthenticatedAccess bouncer, so an attacker requires a valid Portainer session. However, a user whose secondary token validation fails in kubeClientMiddleware — for example a user without permission to access a given Kubernetes endpoint — would have their request forwarded to the cluster anyway, bypassing the authorization check. The same defect was present in both the CE and EE codebases. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.33.8.
References
| Link | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://github.com/portainer/portainer/security/advisories/GHSA-mgq6-4x29-88r3 | Exploit Third Party Advisory |
Configurations
History
01 Jun 2026, 18:03
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| CPE | cpe:2.3:a:portainer:portainer:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | |
| References | () https://github.com/portainer/portainer/security/advisories/GHSA-mgq6-4x29-88r3 - Exploit, Third Party Advisory | |
| First Time |
Portainer
Portainer portainer |
28 May 2026, 22:16
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| New CVE |
Information
Published : 2026-05-28 22:16
Updated : 2026-06-01 18:03
NVD link : CVE-2026-44882
Mitre link : CVE-2026-44882
CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-44882
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Products Affected
portainer
- portainer
CWE
CWE-863
Incorrect Authorization
