Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes must-gather missing encryption
| CVSS Meta Temp Score | Current Exploit Price (≈) | CTI Interest Score |
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Summary
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component must-gather. The manipulation results in missing encryption. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2026-73834. The attack is only possible with local access. There is not any exploit available.
Details
A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (version unknown). It has been classified as problematic. Affected is an unknown function of the component must-gather. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a missing encryption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-311. The product does not encrypt sensitive or critical information before storage or transmission. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:
A flaw was found in the must-gather component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes. Certain ACM wrapper Custom Resources that embed Secret data are collected without redaction. When an administrator runs must-gather, credentials and tokens are captured in cleartext in the resulting archive, potentially exposing sensitive information to anyone with access to the archive.
The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-73834 since 08/18/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 08/18/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1600.
There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.
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Product
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Website
- Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/
CPE 2.3
CPE 2.2
CVSSv4
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VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.0VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.0
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CNA Base Score: 5.5
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Exploiting
Class: Missing encryptionCWE: CWE-311 / CWE-310
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: No
Availability: 🔒
Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligence
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Countermeasures
Recommended: no mitigation knownStatus: 🔍
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Timeline
08/18/2026 Advisory disclosed08/18/2026 CVE reserved
08/18/2026 VulDB entry created
08/18/2026 VulDB entry last update
Sources
Vendor: redhat.comAdvisory: access.redhat.com
Status: Not defined
CVE: CVE-2026-73834 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-73834
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-391776
Entry
Created: 08/18/2026 17:48Changes: 08/18/2026 17:48 (61)
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Cache ID: 216::103
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