CVE-2026-93017Insights-operator: gather serviceaccount has cluster-wide secret read plus nodes/proxy and cluster-reader

Description

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" ```

Timeline

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

0.46% · top 59% of all CVEs (14 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: High 7.7.

Affected products

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12

  • unaffected 1792974936 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13

  • unaffected 1793825599 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14

  • unaffected 1791842870 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15

  • unaffected 1791632611 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16

  • unaffected 1792879727 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17

  • unaffected 1793904247 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18

  • unaffected 1792874579 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19

  • unaffected 1791626249 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20

  • unaffected 1791625576 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21

  • unaffected 1791980436 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22

  • unaffected 1792771251 – < *

• Red Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5

  All versions: affected

What to do

Workaround: Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.

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-2026-95030 (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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Record last updated 13 Nov 2026, 13:14 UTC.