Description
A flaw was found in managed-serviceaccount. A compromised addon-manager pod, due to its ClusterRole granting excessive permissions, can read any secret across all namespaces. Additionally, it can approve arbitrary Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), which could lead to information disclosure and privilege escalation within the cluster.
Published: 2026-08-18
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Tue, 18 Aug 2026 16:30:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in managed-serviceaccount. A compromised addon-manager pod, due to its ClusterRole granting excessive permissions, can read any secret across all namespaces. Additionally, it can approve arbitrary Certificate Signing Requests (CSRs), which could lead to information disclosure and privilege escalation within the cluster.
Title Managed-serviceaccount: managed-serviceaccount: hub addon-manager clusterrole grants cluster-wide secret read/write and csr approval
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat acm
Weaknesses CWE-269
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat acm
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-08-18T17:58:03.483Z

Reserved: 2026-08-18T15:29:26.756Z

Link: CVE-2026-75924

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-18T17:17:03.457

Modified: 2026-08-18T17:17:03.457

Link: CVE-2026-75924

cve-icon Redhat

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Weaknesses
  • CWE-269

    Improper Privilege Management