CVE-2026-105312 (GCVE-0-2026-105312)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-20 11:30 – Updated: 2026-10-20 22:33
VLAI
Title
Console-operator: streams for apache kafka console: tenant-controlled container image on clusterrole-bound pod enables namespace-to-cluster privilege escalation
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.
Severity
9.9 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-10-20 15:16 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
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-2026-105312 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510863 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
2026-10-20 11:00
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