CVE-2026-93017

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

High 7.7

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" ```

Assigner
redhat
Published
2026-10-08
Updated
2026-10-23
Reserved
2026-09-17

Scores

SourceCVSSScoreSeverityVector
redhat3.17.7HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

Affected

VendorProductVersions
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 1791842870 to < * (unaffected)
others: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15 1791632611 to < * (unaffected)
others: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19 1791626249 to < * (unaffected)
others: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20 1791625576 to < * (unaffected)
others: affected
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21 1791980436 to < * (unaffected)
others: affected

References

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