CVE-2026-70495: Improper Privilege Management in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. This component's `search-serviceaccount` has overly broad permissions, allowing it to impersonate users and groups across the entire cluster. If an attacker gains access to any of the pods running under this service account, they could exploit this to achieve `system:masters` access, granting them full control over the cluster.
CVE-2026-70495: Improper Privilege Management in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Description
A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. This component's `search-serviceaccount` has overly broad permissions, allowing it to impersonate users and groups across the entire cluster. If an attacker gains access to any of the pods running under this service account, they could exploit this to achieve `system:masters` access, granting them full control over the cluster.
CVSS v3.1
Score 8.8high
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-04T15:54:13.587Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-70495","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6a83640bbf8831d53976dc23
Added to database: 08/17/2026, 19:42:03 UTC
Last updated: 08/17/2026, 19:42:03 UTC
Views: 1
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