{"id":"CVE-2026-93017","title":"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 cl…","summary":"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 cl…","severity":"high","cvss":7.7,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","cwe":["CWE-269"],"vendor":"Red Hat","product":"openshift4/ose-insights-rhel8-operator","affected":["openshift4/ose-insights-rhel8-operator (all versions)","openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operator (all versions)"],"published":"2026-10-08","updated":"2026-10-08","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-08T15:17:56.950","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93017","references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93017","label":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515741","label":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"ingestedAt":"2026-10-08T14:47:16.348Z","slug":"CVE-2026-93017","body":"## Overview\n\nThe `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.\n\nRef: https://github.com/openshift/insights-operator/blob/8f15e3157ff09f54ab22801f5b21da35a195cc6d/manifests/03-clusterrole.yaml#L368-L373\n```\n- apiGroups:\n  - \"\"\n  resources:\n  - secrets\n  verbs:\n  - get\n  - list\n```\n\nBy spawning a pod with the gather service account mounted, an attacker will be able to access any secret in any namespace.\n\n```\nspec:\n serviceAccountName:\"gather\"\n```\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":42,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":42.4,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}