Red Hat Cost Management Metrics Operator CostManagementMetricsConfig authentication.type/token_endpoint input validation

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Cost Management Metrics Operator and classified as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component CostManagementMetricsConfig. Such manipulation of the argument authentication.type/token_endpoint leads to input validation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-18382. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Cost Management Metrics Operator (the affected version is unknown). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component CostManagementMetricsConfig. The manipulation of the argument authentication.type/token_endpoint with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in koku-metrics-operator. The operator's CostManagementMetricsConfig custom resource allows a user able to edit the CR to specify an arbitrary OAuth token endpoint. When authentication.type is set to service-account, the operator sends the tenant's Red Hat SSO client_id and client_secret to this user-controlled URL, allowing the attacker to obtain the credentials.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-18382 since 07/30/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are needed for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/30/2026).

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-51095). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Red Hat

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• Cost Management Metrics Operator

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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