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Vulnerability · Published Oct 8, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2026-93017Insights-operator: gather serviceaccount has cluster-wide secret read plus nodes/proxy and cluster-reader

High 7.7

In plain English

A high-severity privilege mismanagement in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 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 39% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)7.7High
Exploit odds (30 days)0.4%top 61.0% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

The `insights-operator-gather` ClusterRole grants the operator's service account read access to secrets in the core API group with no namespace or resourceNames restriction — therefore, access to every secret in every namespace in the cluster. Ref: https://github.com/openshift/insights-operator/blob/8f15e3157ff09f54ab22801f5b21da35a195cc6d/manifests/03-clusterrole.yaml#L368-L373 ``` - apiGroups: - "" resources: - secrets verbs: - get - list ``` By spawning a pod with the gather service account mounted, an attacker will be able to access any secret in any namespace. ``` spec: serviceAccountName:"gather" ```

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22 see references
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 see references

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

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