{"id":"CVE-2026-71846","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-71846","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T04:11:28.330Z","title":"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.","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.","published":"2026-08-12T22:17:16.000Z","lastModified":"2026-10-24T15:10:00.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":6.5,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-250"],"affected":["redhat/advanced cluster management for kubernetes","redhat/insights-client"],"epss":{"score":0.0016,"percentile":0.0516,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.16%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"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-2026-71846","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512569","tags":["Issue Tracking","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71846","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."}