CVE-2026-32241 is a high-severity command injection vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) in Flannel that allows an authenticated attacker to achieve cross-node remote code execution by injecting malicious data into the extension backend's BackendData field. The vulnerability affects flannel-io flannel versions prior to 0.28.2. Users must upgrade to flannel version 0.28.2 to remediate the issue.
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