CVE-2026-71846 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-71846: Insights-client: insights-client: clusterrole grants cluster-wide secrets get/list/watch beyond least privilege

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Weakness CWE-250
Published August 12, 2026
Last update August 12, 2026

CVSS base score

6.5/10
Attack vector Local
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

August 12, 2026 CVE published