Red Hat Apache Camel hawtio-operator information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Apache Camel and classified as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component hawtio-operator. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability was named CVE-2026-81320. The attack needs to be approached locally. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Red Hat Apache Camel (the affected version is unknown). Affected is an unknown code of the component hawtio-operator. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. When a custom Route TLS secret is configured and the operator runs at debug log level 1 or higher, the entire Route object — including the TLS private key in PEM format — is serialized to JSON and written to the operator's standard output. Operator logs are typically forwarded to centralized logging systems and readable by anyone with pods/log access in the openshift-operators namespace. Debug level 1 is a low threshold commonly enabled during troubleshooting.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-81320 since 08/27/2026. The exploitability is told to be easy. Local access is required to approach this attack. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/15/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1592 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

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-2026-78276). 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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• Apache Camel

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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