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.

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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.

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Thu, 13 Aug 2026 10:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Redhat advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes
Vendors & Products Redhat advanced Cluster Management For Kubernetes

Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Title Insights-client: insights-client: clusterrole grants cluster-wide secrets get/list/watch beyond least privilege
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat acm
Weaknesses CWE-250
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat acm
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-12T21:46:19.463Z

Reserved: 2026-08-07T16:54:37.704Z

Link: CVE-2026-71846

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-12T22:17:16.143

Modified: 2026-08-12T22:17:16.143

Link: CVE-2026-71846

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-08-13T10:15:07Z

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