Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4: improper certificate validation
Critical9.9CVE-2026-78234 · Published Sep 8, 2026
A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator reads the OpenShift Service CA private signing key from the openshift-service-ca namespace and uses it to mint client certificates with a Subject Common Name (CN) supplied by the author of a namespaced Hawtio custom resource. Because the operator ships a ClusterRole that aggregates Hawtio CR permissions into the edit and admin roles, any user with edit access in any namespace can obtain a Service-CA-signed certificate with an arbitrary subject. This certificate can be used to impersonate any in-cluster service identity to peers that trust the Service CA for client authentication, including Jolokia agents and other Service-CA-trusting components.
Affected versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| all versions | No fix yet |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-295
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