CVE-2026-71470

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.19.1—
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

Score 9.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-08-19. The CNA's CVSS baseline 9.1; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: cna:redhat, epss, ghsa
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
9.1EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixSerious severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet.
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.7%CVSS: 9.1Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in the search-v2-operator. This vulnerability allows a privileged user, specifically a Custom Resource (CR) editor, to manipulate Search CR fields such as imageOverride, arguments, and environment variables without proper validation. By exploiting this, an attacker can mount arbitrary secrets into a search container's environment or replace the container image with an attacker-controlled one. This leads to privilege escalation and can result in a full cluster compromise due to the ServiceAccount's extensive impersonation permissions.

CVSS v3
9.1
EG Score
9.1CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
41
EG Risk 41/100CISA SSVC

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
Severity91% × 45%
Exploitation1% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.7%
EPSS %ILE
51st
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it: high means the affected system is essential to your organisation's mission, or its compromise could cause irreversible harm to people. CISA's decision table

Published

August 19, 2026

Last Modified

September 5, 2026

Advisory Details (8)

Auto-updated Sep 15, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
redhat

2512149 – (CVE-2026-71470) CVE-2026-71470 acm-search-v2-rhel9: CVE-2026-71470 search-v2-operator: Search CR imageOverride/arguments/envVar flow unsanitized into pods running impersonating SA

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512149
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387
redhat Patch Available
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386
redhat Patch Available

CVE-2026-71470 - 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-2026-71470

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-71470(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 / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876816742026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876816512026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876821122026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876888272026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876820332026-08-26redhat
redhatrhacm2/acm-search-v2-rhel9:17876816862026-08-26redhat

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 67× in last 7d / 324× 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. 2026-10-05 14:34 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-05 14:34 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-10-05 10:18 UTCVendor advisory
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  7. 2026-10-05 01:45 UTCEG score recompute
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  10. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
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  21. 2026-10-03 21:12 UTCVendor advisory
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  23. 2026-10-03 16:55 UTCEG score recompute
  24. 2026-10-03 16:55 UTCVendor advisory
  25. 2026-10-03 16:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
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  1. 2026-10-03 14:26 UTCEPSS rescore
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  34. 2026-09-30 08:43 UTCVendor advisory
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  41. 2026-09-28 21:43 UTCVendor advisory
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  44. 2026-09-28 13:49 UTCVendor advisory
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  61. 2026-09-27 06:57 UTCVendor advisory
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Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-71470?
CVE-2026-71470 is a critical vulnerability published on August 19, 2026. A flaw was found in the search-v2-operator. This vulnerability allows a privileged user, specifically a Custom Resource (CR) editor, to manipulate Search CR fields such as imageOverride, arguments, and environment variables without proper validation. By exploiting this, an attacker can mount…
When was CVE-2026-71470 disclosed?
CVE-2026-71470 was first published on August 19, 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-2026-71470 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-71470 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (51st percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-71470?
CVE-2026-71470 has a CVSS base score of 9.1 (the CNA's own assessment, by redhat; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-71470?
A fix for CVE-2026-71470 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-71470 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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