Improper Privilege Management Affecting openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operator package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-OPENSHIFT4OSEINSIGHTSRHEL9OPERATOR-20825793
  • published11 Oct 2026
  • disclosed8 Oct 2026

Introduced: 8 Oct 2026

NewCVE-2026-93017  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-269  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:9 openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operator.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operator package and not the openshift4/ose-insights-rhel9-operator package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

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"

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1