Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes managed-serviceaccount privileges management

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A vulnerability has been found in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component managed-serviceaccount. The manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2026-75924. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (the affected version unknown). This issue affects an unknown part of the component managed-serviceaccount. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges management vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-269. The product does not properly assign, modify, track, or check privileges for an actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in managed-serviceaccount. A compromised addon-manager pod, due to its ClusterRole granting excessive permissions, can read any secret across all namespaces. Additionally, it can approve arbitrary Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), which could lead to information disclosure and privilege escalation within the cluster.

It is possible to read the advisory at access.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-75924 since 08/18/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation requires an enhanced level of successful authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/18/2026). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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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• Virtualization Software

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• Red Hat

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• Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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