CVE-2026-105311 (GCVE-0-2026-105311)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-20 11:30 – Updated: 2026-10-21 20:44
VLAI
Title
Console-operator: streams for apache kafka console: cross-namespace kafkauser secret exfiltration via confused deputy
Summary
The StreamsHub Console operator acts as a confused deputy: a Kubernetes tenant with permission to create a Console custom resource can set spec.kafkaClusters[].credentials.kafkaUser.namespace to any namespace. The operator, running with cluster-wide Secrets RBAC, reads the victim-namespace KafkaUser Secret (SASL credentials or TLS private keys) and writes the plaintext material into a Secret in the attacker's namespace. No same-namespace check or allowlist exists anywhere in the code path.
Severity
7.7 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/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 2026-10-21 20:44 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-441 - Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')
Assigner
redhat CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1046 records in the last 180 days details
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-105311 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510875 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka® Affected: 0.2.0 , < 0.12.10 (semver)
Affected: 0.13.0 , < 0.14.2 (semver)
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Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 2     cpe:/a:redhat:amq_streams:2
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Date Public
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