{"id":"CVE-2026-77968","title":"A flaw was found in hawtio-operator","summary":"A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator's ClusterRole grants secrets: [create, get, list, update, watch] across all namespaces. While the operator uses a controller-runtime label-selector cache as a memory optimization, the Ser…","severity":"high","cvss":8.2,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N","cwe":["CWE-269"],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"rhbac-4/hawtio-operator-bundle","affected":["rhbac-4/hawtio-operator-bundle (all versions)","rhbac-4/hawtio-rhel9 (all versions)"],"published":"2026-09-08","updated":"2026-09-08","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-08T19:08:15.590","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77968","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-77968","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524896","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-77968.json"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77968"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77968"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66120"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org","csaf","vex","red-hat"],"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-09-08T14:05:09.115190Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-08T15:33:26.983Z","epss":0.00248,"epssPercentile":0.16403,"patched":["build_of_apache_camel_hawtio_4_4_for_rhel 9"],"slug":"CVE-2026-77968","body":"## Overview\n\nA flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator's ClusterRole grants secrets: [create, get, list, update, watch] across all namespaces. While the operator uses a controller-runtime label-selector cache as a memory optimization, the ServiceAccount token authorizes read access to every Secret in the cluster. The operator also bypasses the cache via direct API calls. Compromise of the operator pod would yield read access to every Secret in the cluster, including bootstrap tokens, cloud credentials, and other operators' secrets.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.\n\n## Vendor advisories\n\n- **Red Hat VEX** · Important · affected: Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 · no fix planned: Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4 · updated 2026-09-10 · [vex](https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-77968.json)\n- **RHSA-2026:66120** · Red Hat · fixed in: Red Hat Build of Apache Camel HawtIO 4.4 for RHEL 9 · released 2026-09-09 · [advisory](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66120)","depth":"twilight","depthScore":45,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":45.1,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}