Red HatCVE-2026-71846
Red Hat insights-client. The: excessive privileges
Medium6.5CVE-2026-71846 · Published Aug 12, 2026 · updated Sep 5, 2026
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.
Affected versions
The source does not list versions here. See the source advisory for affected products and fixes.
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-250
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71846
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71846
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512569
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