CVE-2026-77968

HIGHPre-NVD 8.28.2—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 8.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-09-08. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.2; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
8.2EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 8.2Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator's ClusterRole grants secrets: [create, get, list, update, watch] across all namespaces. While the operator uses a controller-runtime label-selector cache as a memory optimization, the ServiceAccount token authorizes read access to every Secret in the cluster. The operator also bypasses the cache via direct API calls. Compromise of the operator pod would yield read access to every Secret in the cluster, including bootstrap tokens, cloud credentials, and other operators' secrets.

CVSS v3
8.2
EG Score
8.2(high)
EG Risk
37(Track)
EG Risk 37/100SSVC: 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
Severity82% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
16%
KEV
Not listed

Published

September 8, 2026

Last Modified

September 8, 2026

Advisory Details (2)

Auto-updated Sep 8, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2524896 – (CVE-2026-77968) CVE-2026-77968 hawtio-operator: hawtio-operator: Cluster-wide secrets read/write granted to operator ServiceAccount

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524896
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-77968 - 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-2026-77968

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-77968(1)

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

Patch Availability(1)

Vendor / EcosystemFixed in / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhbac-4/hawtio-rhel9-operator:2.0.1-102026-09-09redhat

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.

All Vendor Advisories

(1)

Every vendor that published an advisory referencing this CVE — pulled from our cve_vendor_advisories aggregation. Click any row for the vendor's original advisory page.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 38× in last 7d / 68× 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.

  1. 2026-09-20 08:29 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-09-20 08:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-09-19 19:19 UTCEG score recompute
  4. 2026-09-19 19:19 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-09-19 19:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-09-19 06:05 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-19 06:05 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-19 06:04 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-18 16:58 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-09-18 16:58 UTCGHSA enrichment
  12. 2026-09-18 03:52 UTCEG score recompute
  13. 2026-09-18 03:52 UTCVendor advisory
  14. 2026-09-18 03:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  15. 2026-09-17 14:46 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-09-17 14:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-17 01:38 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-17 01:38 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-17 01:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-16 12:31 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-16 12:31 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-16 12:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  25. 2026-09-15 23:26 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-09-15 23:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-15 10:20 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-15 10:20 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-15 10:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-09-14 21:11 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-14 21:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-14 08:01 UTCVendor advisory
  10. 2026-09-14 08:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-09-13 18:55 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-13 18:55 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-09-13 18:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-13 05:49 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-09-13 05:49 UTCGHSA enrichment
  16. 2026-09-12 16:43 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-12 16:43 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-09-12 16:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-12 03:37 UTCEG score recompute
  20. 2026-09-12 03:37 UTCVendor advisory
  21. 2026-09-12 03:37 UTCGHSA enrichment
  22. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  23. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-09-11 14:31 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-11 14:31 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-09-11 14:31 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-09-11 01:25 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-09-11 01:25 UTCGHSA enrichment
  29. 2026-09-10 12:19 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-09-10 12:19 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-09-10 12:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-09-10 09:35 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-09-09 23:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
  34. 2026-09-09 08:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  35. 2026-09-08 19:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-09-08 15:36 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-08 15:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
  38. 2026-09-08 14:24 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-09-08 14:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  40. 2026-09-08 12:34 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-09-08 12:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  42. 2026-09-08 11:38 UTCEG score recompute
  43. 2026-09-08 11:35 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-77968?
CVE-2026-77968 is a high vulnerability published on September 8, 2026. A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator's ClusterRole grants secrets: [create, get, list, update, watch] across all namespaces. While the operator uses a controller-runtime label-selector cache as a memory optimization, the ServiceAccount token authorizes read access to every Secret in…
When was CVE-2026-77968 disclosed?
CVE-2026-77968 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on September 8, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-77968 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-77968 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 83.5% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-77968?
CVE-2026-77968 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.2 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-77968?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-77968, 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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