Insights-client: insights-client: clusterrole grants cluster-wide secrets get/list/watch beyond least privilege
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 98% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Red 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 2.17References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512569