CVE-2026-71846 (GCVE-0-2026-71846)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-08-12 21:46
Modified
2026-08-27 02:20
CWE
  • CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Summary
A flaw was found in insights-client. The component's ServiceAccount is bound to a ClusterRole granting cluster-wide secrets get, list, and watch permissions, while the code only requires access to a single specific Secret. This excessive privilege means that a compromise of the insights-client pod or ServiceAccount token would grant an attacker read access to all Secrets across the hub cluster, including managed-cluster kubeconfigs and other sensitive credentials.
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512569 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11 Unaffected: 1787688993   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2.11::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13 Unaffected: 1787259125   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2.13::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14 Unaffected: 1786882244   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2.14::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15 Unaffected: 1787238585   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2.15::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16 Unaffected: 1787184541   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2.16::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17 Unaffected: 1787227689   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2.17::el9
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