CVE-2026-71846
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
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.
Affected Software
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Weaknesses
- CWE-250: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges
Workarounds
Restrict the insights-client ClusterRole to the minimum required permissions. Replace the cluster-wide secrets get/list/watch with a namespaced Role granting get access only to the specific Secret openshift-config/pull-secret in the openshift-config namespace.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512569
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