CVE-2026-71469: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
A flaw was found in search-v2-api. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending requests with unique random bearer tokens. Each unique token creates a permanent entry in the unbounded tokenReviews cache, which is not properly cleared. This can lead to memory exhaustion of the search-api pod, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
CVE-2026-71469: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Description
A flaw was found in search-v2-api. An unauthenticated attacker can exploit this by sending requests with unique random bearer tokens. Each unique token creates a permanent entry in the unbounded tokenReviews cache, which is not properly cleared. This can lead to memory exhaustion of the search-api pod, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).
CVSS v3.1
Score 7.5high
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-06T19:34:07.969Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71469","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6a7cefadbf8831d5393cbeb0
Added to database: 08/12/2026, 22:11:57 UTC
Last updated: 08/12/2026, 22:11:57 UTC
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