CVE-2026-93017 — Red Hat
HIGHCVE-2026-93017 is a high-severity (CVSS 7.7) Improper Privilege Management vulnerability. No vendor fix is recorded yet; mitigation options are listed below.
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,…
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.
- 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"
Detection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Remediation status
No fixed release is recorded for CVE-2026-93017 yet. Track the upstream advisory, and apply the exposure-reduction steps below in the meantime.
Mitigate without a patch
Close the privilege gap rather than the entry point: audit which accounts, roles and service identities can reach the affected operation, drop the component to the least privilege it actually needs, and review file and directory permissions created by earlier installs — a default left in place is what makes this reachable.
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