FKIE_CVE-2026-71846
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-08-12 22:17 - Updated: 2026-09-05 18:17
Severity
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | advanced_cluster_management_for_kubernetes | 2.0 | |
| redhat | insights-client | - |
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