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CVE-2026-71846 (GCVE-0-2026-71846)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-12 21:46 – Updated: 2026-08-14 18:10

Title

Insights-client: insights-client: clusterrole grants cluster-wide secrets get/list/watch beyond least privilege

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.

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-14 17:39 UTC

CWE

CWE-250 - Execution with Unnecessary Privileges

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846	vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512569	issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version	CPE status
Red Hat	Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2	cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2

Date Public

2026-08-12 20:00

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FKIE_CVE-2026-71846

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-12 22:17 - Updated: 2026-08-14 19:17

Severity

6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Summary

References

	URL	Tags
	secalert@redhat.com	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846
	secalert@redhat.com	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512569

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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GHSA-WFWR-QQXC-6CCH

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-13 00:31 – Updated: 2026-08-13 00:31

Details

Severity

6.5 (Medium)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
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Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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