CVE-2026-105312 (GCVE-0-2026-105312)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-20 11:30
Modified
2026-10-20 22:33
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CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
A Kubernetes tenant with create permission on Console custom resources can set spec.containers.api.spec.image to an arbitrary container image. The operator deploys this image into a pod whose ServiceAccount is bound via ClusterRoleBinding to a ClusterRole granting cluster-wide get/list/watch on all Strimzi CRDs (including KafkaUsers), patch on Kafkas/KafkaRebalances, and cluster-monitoring-view. The attacker's code reads the projected SA token and gains cross-tenant Strimzi control-plane read+write access.
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Impacted products
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| Red Hat | StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka® |
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