CVE-2026-71846

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.56.5—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 6.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-13. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.5; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
6.5EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in insights-client. The component's ServiceAccount is bound to a ClusterRole granting cluster-wide secrets get, list, and watch permissions, while the code only requires access to a single specific Secret. This excessive privilege means that a compromise of the insights-client pod or ServiceAccount token would grant an attacker read access to all Secrets across the hub cluster, including managed-cluster kubeconfigs and other sensitive credentials.

CVSS v3
6.5
EG Score
6.5(medium)
EG Risk
29(Track)
EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).

How it’s computed
Severity65% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
2%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 12, 2026

Last Modified

September 5, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Aug 12, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2512569 – (CVE-2026-71846) CVE-2026-71846 insights-client: CVE-2026-71846 insights-client: ClusterRole grants cluster-wide secrets get/list/watch beyond least privilege

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512569
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-71846 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71846

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-71846(7)

These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.

Patch Availability(6)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhacm2/insights-client-rhel9:17871845412026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/insights-client-rhel9:17872591252026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/insights-client-rhel9:17872276892026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/insights-client-rhel9:17872385852026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/insights-client-rhel9:17868822442026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/insights-client-rhel9:17876889932026-08-26redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 23× in last 7d / 105× in last 30d)

Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-71846?
CVE-2026-71846 is a medium vulnerability published on August 12, 2026. A flaw was found in insights-client. The component's ServiceAccount is bound to a ClusterRole granting cluster-wide secrets get, list, and watch permissions, while the code only requires access to a single specific Secret. This excessive privilege means that a compromise of the insights-client pod…
When was CVE-2026-71846 disclosed?
CVE-2026-71846 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 12, 2026, with the most recent update on September 5, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-71846 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-71846 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 97.8% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-71846?
CVE-2026-71846 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-71846?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-71846, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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