Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Aug 12, 2026· Updated Sep 5, 2026
CVE-2026-71846
CVE-2026-71846
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.
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References
8- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846nvdVendor Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391nvd
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