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Red HatCVE-2026-19278

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4: privilege escalation

Medium6.8CVE-2026-19278 · Published Aug 10, 2026 · updated Aug 14, 2026

A flaw was found in StackRox/RHACS Central's Auth Machine-to-Machine (M2M) token exchange. When an administrator configures M2M role mappings, the system uses unanchored regular expressions for matching claim values. This allows an attacker with a valid OpenID Connect (OIDC) token, whose claim value is a superstring of a configured pattern, to gain unauthorized access to roles they were not intended to receive. This can lead to privilege escalation within the system.

Red Hat advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security 4
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-625

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