CVE-2026-96740 (GCVE-0-2026-96740)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-09-28 17:27 – Updated: 2026-09-28 17:27
VLAI
Title
Streamshub/console: console-operator: streams for apache kafka console: unfiltered kafka client properties → sa-token exfiltration via config.providers
Summary
A flaw was found in the StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka. Tenant-supplied Kafka client properties from the Console custom resource are copied into the console-api AdminClient configuration without filtering security-sensitive keys, allowing a Console CR author to set config.providers and bootstrap.servers to exfiltrate the console-api ServiceAccount token to an attacker-controlled broker.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-470 - Use of Externally-Controlled Input to Select Classes or Code ('Unsafe Reflection')
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96740 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539427 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 2     cpe:/a:redhat:amq_streams:2
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Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 3     cpe:/a:redhat:amq_streams:3
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Date Public
2026-09-28 17:05
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