CVE-2026-71846 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: redhat
Reserved: 07.08.2026 Published: 12.08.2026 Updated: 12.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score: 6.5

Product Status

Vendor Red Hat
Product Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Versions Default: affected

Workarounds

Restrict the insights-client ClusterRole to the minimum required permissions. Replace the cluster-wide secrets get/list/watch with a namespaced Role granting get access only to the specific Secret openshift-config/pull-secret in the openshift-config namespace.

References

Problem Types

  • Execution with Unnecessary Privileges CWE