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CVE-2026-75481: SkyPilot Authentication Bypass via Service Account Role Escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-17 · updated 2026-10-23
• Weakness: CWE-269

Description

SkyPilot fails to validate that authenticated users are entitled to grant administrator roles when updating service account permissions. Attackers can create a service account, escalate it to administrator role, and authenticate with its bearer token to gain administrative control over all users and workspaces.

Affected products

• skypilot-org skypilot: through 0.13.1rc1

References

• https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot
• https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/blob/master/sky/users/server.py
• https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/commit/8a3e00259cd374e662cd876c037164bcb070f78e
• https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/issues/9846
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/skypilot-authentication-bypass-via-service-account-role-escalation
• https://github.com/skypilot-org/skypilot/issues/9846

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