{"id":"CVE-2026-78234","title":"A flaw was found in hawtio-operator","summary":"A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator reads the OpenShift Service CA private signing key from the openshift-service-ca namespace and uses it to mint client certificates with a Subject Common Name (CN) supplied by the author o…","severity":"critical","cvss":9.9,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H","cwe":["CWE-295"],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"rhbac-4/hawtio-gateway-rhel9","affected":["rhbac-4/hawtio-gateway-rhel9 (all versions)","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-2026-78234","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-78234","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524894","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-78234.json"},{"url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-78234"},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-78234"},{"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":"2026-09-08T12:18:30.594248Z"},"ingestedAt":"2026-09-08T15:33:26.983Z","epss":0.00212,"epssPercentile":0.11748,"patched":["build_of_apache_camel_hawtio_4_4_for_rhel 9"],"slug":"CVE-2026-78234","body":"## Overview\n\nA flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator reads the OpenShift Service CA private signing key from the openshift-service-ca namespace and uses it to mint client certificates with a Subject Common Name (CN) supplied by the author of a namespaced Hawtio custom resource. Because the operator ships a ClusterRole that aggregates Hawtio CR permissions into the edit and admin roles, any user with edit access in any namespace can obtain a Service-CA-signed certificate with an arbitrary subject. This certificate can be used to impersonate any in-cluster service identity to peers that trust the Service CA for client authentication, including Jolokia agents and other Service-CA-trusting components.\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-2026-78234.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":"midnight","depthScore":54,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":54.5,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}