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CVE-2026-93017VulnerabilityPublished Updated

The insights-operator-gather ClusterRole grants the operator's service account read access to secrets in the core API

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Authoritative record:CVE-2026-93017· High 7.7

Not known to be exploited · CVSS 7.7 High : patch Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 soon.

Data as of 29 Oct 2026, 20:16 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
7.7High
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.

Thin evidence

One scorer or none
CVSS scores by source
CNA (redhat)CVSS 3.17.7
EPSS
0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 31% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Exploitation evidence

  1. Disclosed: evidence found.

    CVE published 8 Oct 2026

  2. Detectable: no evidence on record.

    No public nuclei template indexed

  3. Weaponized: no evidence on record.

    No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB

  4. Exploited in the wild: no evidence on record.

    Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation

  5. Observed by OffSeq Mirage: no evidence on record.

    No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 29 Oct 2026.

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12openshift4/ose-insights-rhel8-operatorAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14openshift4/ose-insights-rhel8-operatorAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operatorAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operatorAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operatorAffected–Fixed in–
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operatorAffected–Fixed in–

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released a security update in OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.76 that fixes this vulnerability. Users should upgrade to this version or later to remediate the issue. Follow the official Red Hat OpenShift upgrade documentation to apply the update. No additional mitigation is required once the update is applied.

Description

The insights-operator-gather ClusterRole in OpenShift grants the operator's service account unrestricted read access to all secrets across every namespace in the cluster. This broad permission allows any pod running with this service account to access sensitive secret data cluster-wide. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.7, indicating high severity. A security update is available in OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.76 to address this issue.

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