Red Hat Konflux CI User Interface Proxy certificate validation

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A vulnerability categorized as problematic has been discovered in Red Hat Konflux CI. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component User Interface Proxy. Such manipulation leads to certificate validation. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2026-117681. The attack can be launched remotely. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Konflux CI (affected version unknown). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown functionality of the component User Interface Proxy. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in konflux-ci. This vulnerability allows privilege escalation when the user interface proxy automatically disables Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificate verification for connections to internal backend services in environments lacking a default service certificate authority. Because the proxy attaches a cluster-scoped authentication token with user impersonation rights to these requests, an adjacent network attacker capable of intercepting traffic can capture the credentials to gain full administrative control of the cluster.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-117681 since 10/29/2026. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/31/2026). This vulnerability is assigned to T1587.003 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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• Red Hat

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• Konflux CI

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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