Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform insights-operator-gather ClusterRole 03-clusterrole.yaml privileges management

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the file manifests/03-clusterrole.yaml of the component insights-operator-gather ClusterRole. Such manipulation leads to privileges management. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-93017. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (version now known). Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the file manifests/03-clusterrole.yaml of the component insights-operator-gather ClusterRole. 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. CVE summarizes:

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 cluster. Ref: https://github.com/openshift/insights-operator/blob/8f15e3157ff09f54ab22801f5b21da35a195cc6d/manifests/03-clusterrole.yaml#L368-L373 ``` - apiGroups: - "" resources: - secrets verbs: - get - list ``` By spawning a pod with the gather service account mounted, an attacker will be able to access any secret in any namespace. ``` spec: serviceAccountName:"gather" ```

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-93017 since 09/17/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. 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 10/08/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1068 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.

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• Virtualization Software

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• Red Hat

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• OpenShift Container Platform

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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