CVE-2026-70496criticalCWE-250

CVE-2026-70496: critical vulnerability in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for…

Search-v2-operator: search-v2-operator: operator clusterrole is cluster-admin equivalent via impersonate, rbac write, csr approve, and manifestwork

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28Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 9.9epss 0.6%
A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. The operator's ClusterRole has permissions equivalent to a cluster administrator, allowing it to impersonate other entities, write Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) configurations, approve Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), and manage ManifestWork. This grants excessive privileges beyond what is necessary for the operator's intended function, potentially leading to privilege escalation within the cluster.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17
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