CVE-2026-71846: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
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.
CVE-2026-71846: Execution with Unnecessary Privileges in Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Description
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 6.5medium
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- redhat
- Date Reserved
- 2026-08-07T16:54:37.704Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
- Vendor Advisory Urls
- [{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846","vendor":"Red Hat"}]
Threat ID: 6a7cefadbf8831d5393cbebc
Added to database: 08/12/2026, 22:11:57 UTC
Last updated: 08/12/2026, 22:11:57 UTC
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