CVE-2026-71845
Insights-client: insights-client: ccx_token bearer credential logged in clear text at startup via setdefault()
- 6.3MediumCVSS base score
- 0.50%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 57% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
A flaw was found in insights-client. The setDefault() function logs the value of every environment variable it processes, including CCX_TOKEN, a bearer credential used in disconnected cluster deployments. When glog verbosity is set to level 2 or higher, the token is written in clear text to the pod log on every startup. An attacker with access to pod logs or centralized logging could obtain the credential, leading to unauthorized access to the CCX API.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 4 days later
· 4 days later
Published
- 25 days later
· 25 days later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.7 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.50% · top 57% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11
- unaffected 1787688993 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13
- unaffected 1787259125 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14
- unaffected 1786882244 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15
- unaffected 1787238585 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16
- unaffected 1787184541 – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17
- unaffected 1787227689 – < *
What to do
Workaround: Ensure glog verbosity on the insights-client Deployment is set below level 2 (-v=0 or -v=1). If CCX_TOKEN must be configured for disconnected environments, restrict access to pod logs in the open-cluster-management namespace and to centralized logging backends.
References
References8
- RHSA-2026:60386 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:60387 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:60388 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:60389 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:60390 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHSA-2026:60391 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71845 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2512568 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2026-56898 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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