Vulnerability · Published Sep 15, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2026-81320Hawtio-operator: hawtio-operator: tls private key written to operator log at debug level

Medium 5.5

In plain English

A medium-severity sensitive data in logs 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 0.2% (higher than 9% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 90.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. When a custom Route TLS secret is configured and the operator runs at debug log level 1 or higher, the entire Route object — including the TLS private key in PEM format — is serialized to JSON and written to the operator's standard output. Operator logs are typically forwarded to centralized logging systems and readable by anyone with pods/log access in the openshift-operators namespace. Debug level 1 is a low threshold commonly enabled during troubleshooting.

Affected products (as reported)

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

Weakness: CWE-532 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-81320 vdb-entry, x_refsource_REDHAT
RHBZ#2524898 issue-tracking, x_refsource_REDHAT