Vulnerability · Published Sep 8, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2026-77968Hawtio-operator: hawtio-operator: cluster-wide secrets read/write granted to operator serviceaccount

High 8.2

In plain English

A high-severity privilege mismanagement in Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.4% (higher than 37% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)8.2High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 63.5% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator's ClusterRole grants secrets: [create, get, list, update, watch] across all namespaces. While the operator uses a controller-runtime label-selector cache as a memory optimization, the ServiceAccount token authorizes read access to every Secret in the cluster. The operator also bypasses the cache via direct API calls. Compromise of the operator pod would yield read access to every Secret in the cluster, including bootstrap tokens, cloud credentials, and other operators' secrets.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4	see references
Red Hat	Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4	see references

Weakness: CWE-269 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-77968 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
RHBZ#2524896 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT