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CVE-2026-50564 CrowdStrike LogScale · LogScale

Detect Fission Environment CRD PodSpec Passthrough Node Escape (CVE-2026-50564) in CrowdStrike LogScale

Fission (<=1.23.0) allows the Environment Custom Resource podspec passthrough (poolspec.container / poolspec.podspec) to inject arbitrary Kubernetes PodSpec fields including hostPID, hostNetwork, hostIPC, and privileged securityContext into builder/executor pods created by the fission-builder and fission-router controllers. Any principal able to create or update Environment CRDs (which in many multi-tenant Fission deployments includes low-privileged function developers) can escalate to full node compromise by scheduling a privileged, host-namespace-sharing pod, then pivoting to the underlying kubelet, container runtime socket, or other pods on the node. CVSS 9.9.

MITRE ATT&CK

Tactic
Privilege Escalation Lateral Movement Initial Access

LogScale Detection Query

CrowdStrike LogScale (LogScale)
cql
#event_simpleName=K8sAuditEvent
| ObjectAPIGroup="fission.io" ObjectKind="Environment"
| Verb=create OR Verb=update OR Verb=patch
| RequestObject=*hostPID* OR RequestObject=*hostNetwork* OR RequestObject=*hostIPC* OR RequestObject="*privileged\":true*"
| table([@timestamp, UserName, ObjectNamespace, ObjectName, Verb, RequestObject])
| sort(@timestamp, order=desc)
critical severity medium confidence

CrowdStrike Falcon CQL search over Kubernetes audit telemetry (Falcon Cloud Security) identifying privileged podspec passthrough in Fission Environment CRD mutations.

Data Sources

CrowdStrike Falcon Kubernetes Audit Telemetry

Required Tables

K8sAuditEvent

False Positives & Tuning

  • Approved privileged environment configurations for host-level testing workflows
  • GitOps controllers periodically re-applying already-approved manifests
  • Environment CRDs from unrelated but similarly-named API groups being incorrectly matched

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Testing Methodology

Validate this detection against 3 adversary techniques from Atomic Red Team. Each test below lists the behaviour to exercise and the telemetry you should expect to see. Executable commands and cleanup steps are available with Pro.

  1. Test 1Deploy Fission Environment with hostPID and privileged podspec passthrough

    Expected signal: Kubernetes API audit log entry (verb=create) for environments.fission.io/atomic-test-hostpid-env containing hostPID:true and securityContext.privileged:true in the request object.

  2. Test 2Deploy Fission Environment with hostNetwork passthrough

    Expected signal: Kubernetes API audit log entry (verb=create) for environments.fission.io/atomic-test-hostnet-env containing hostNetwork:true in the request object.

  3. Test 3Patch existing Fission Environment to add hostIPC after initial benign creation

    Expected signal: Kubernetes API audit log entries for both create and patch verbs on environments.fission.io/atomic-test-patch-env, with the patch event's requestObject containing hostIPC:true and privileged:true.

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