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: 0.2%CVSS: 6.5Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

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
6.5MEDIUMmedium confidence
EG Risk
29
EG Risk 29/100CISA 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
Severity65% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA SSVC: Track at every mission impact level.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.2%
EPSS %ILE
4th
KEV
Not listed

CISA SSVCTrack at every mission impact level.

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

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact partial (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 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 / EcosystemFix (by version range) / 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 18× in last 7d / 97× 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.

Showing the most recent 100 of 177 total refreshes for this CVE.

  1. 2026-10-04 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
  2. 2026-10-04 22:26 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-10-04 22:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  4. 2026-10-03 19:54 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-10-03 19:54 UTCVendor advisory
  6. 2026-10-03 19:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
  7. 2026-10-02 08:08 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-10-02 08:08 UTCVendor advisory
  9. 2026-10-02 08:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
  10. 2026-10-01 19:50 UTCEPSS rescore
  11. 2026-09-30 21:52 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-09-30 21:52 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-09-30 21:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
  14. 2026-09-30 15:03 UTCEPSS rescore
  15. 2026-09-28 13:52 UTCEPSS rescore
  16. 2026-09-28 12:26 UTCEG score recompute
  17. 2026-09-28 12:26 UTCVendor advisory
  18. 2026-09-28 12:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
  19. 2026-09-27 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  20. 2026-09-27 09:50 UTCEG score recompute
  21. 2026-09-27 09:50 UTCVendor advisory
  22. 2026-09-27 09:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  23. 2026-09-26 15:59 UTCEPSS rescore
  24. 2026-09-25 03:38 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-25 03:38 UTCVendor advisory
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  1. 2026-09-25 03:38 UTCGHSA enrichment
  2. 2026-09-24 00:57 UTCEG score recompute
  3. 2026-09-24 00:57 UTCVendor advisory
  4. 2026-09-24 00:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  5. 2026-09-23 17:54 UTCEPSS rescore
  6. 2026-09-22 22:33 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-09-22 22:33 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-09-22 22:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-09-21 21:09 UTCEPSS rescore
  10. 2026-09-21 20:02 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-09-21 20:02 UTCVendor advisory
  12. 2026-09-21 20:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-09-20 20:16 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-09-20 16:13 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-09-20 16:13 UTCVendor advisory
  16. 2026-09-20 16:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  17. 2026-09-19 11:22 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-09-19 11:22 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-09-19 11:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
  20. 2026-09-18 19:28 UTCEPSS rescore
  21. 2026-09-18 06:13 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-09-18 06:13 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-09-18 06:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
  24. 2026-09-17 03:50 UTCEG score recompute
  25. 2026-09-17 03:50 UTCVendor advisory
  26. 2026-09-17 03:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
  27. 2026-09-16 14:08 UTCEPSS rescore
  28. 2026-09-16 05:15 UTCEPSS rescore
  29. 2026-09-16 01:11 UTCEG score recompute
  30. 2026-09-16 01:11 UTCVendor advisory
  31. 2026-09-16 01:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  32. 2026-09-15 03:12 UTCEPSS rescore
  33. 2026-09-14 21:46 UTCEG score recompute
  34. 2026-09-14 21:46 UTCVendor advisory
  35. 2026-09-14 21:46 UTCGHSA enrichment
  36. 2026-09-13 14:59 UTCEG score recompute
  37. 2026-09-13 14:59 UTCVendor advisory
  38. 2026-09-13 14:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  39. 2026-09-12 15:02 UTCEPSS rescore
  40. 2026-09-12 12:20 UTCEG score recompute
  41. 2026-09-12 12:20 UTCVendor advisory
  42. 2026-09-12 12:20 UTCGHSA enrichment
  43. 2026-09-11 14:53 UTCEPSS rescore
  44. 2026-09-11 09:57 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-09-11 09:57 UTCVendor advisory
  46. 2026-09-11 09:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  47. 2026-09-10 09:35 UTCEPSS rescore
  48. 2026-09-10 07:32 UTCVendor advisory
  49. 2026-09-10 07:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  50. 2026-09-09 05:09 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-09-09 05:09 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-09-09 05:09 UTCGHSA enrichment
  53. 2026-09-08 22:01 UTCEPSS rescore
  54. 2026-09-07 23:11 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-09-07 23:11 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-09-07 23:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  57. 2026-09-06 20:47 UTCEG score recompute
  58. 2026-09-06 20:47 UTCVendor advisory
  59. 2026-09-06 20:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  60. 2026-09-06 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
  61. 2026-09-05 18:23 UTCEG score recompute
  62. 2026-09-05 18:23 UTCVendor advisory
  63. 2026-09-05 18:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  64. 2026-09-05 17:24 UTCEG score recompute
  65. 2026-09-05 17:24 UTCVendor advisory
  66. 2026-09-05 17:23 UTCGHSA enrichment
  67. 2026-09-05 16:24 UTCEG score recompute
  68. 2026-09-05 16:24 UTCVendor advisory
  69. 2026-09-05 16:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
  70. 2026-09-05 15:33 UTCEG score recompute
  71. 2026-09-05 15:33 UTCVendor advisory
  72. 2026-09-05 15:32 UTCGHSA enrichment
  73. 2026-09-05 10:28 UTCEG score recompute
  74. 2026-09-05 10:28 UTCVendor advisory
  75. 2026-09-05 10:27 UTCGHSA enrichment

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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 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 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (4th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-71846?
CVE-2026-71846 has a CVSS base score of 6.5 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-71846?
A fix for CVE-2026-71846 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-71846 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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