{"id":"CVE-2026-70495","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-70495","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T02:56:38.195Z","title":"This component's `search-serviceaccount` has overly broad permissions, allowing it to impersonate users and groups across the entire cluster.","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.","published":"2026-08-17T20:16:46.000Z","lastModified":"2026-08-27T04:16:47.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-269"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00157,"percentile":0.04799,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.16%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-70495","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511031","source":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-70495","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}