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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.0 Critical

CVE-2026-71471

Acm-search-v2-rhel9: search-v2-operator: hub search cr collector.imageoverride propagated to every spoke as arbitrary container image

Description

A flaw was found in acm-search-v2-rhel9. An attacker with administrative privileges on the hub cluster, specifically with patch access to the Search Custom Resource (CR), could exploit a vulnerability in the `Collector.ImageOverride` field. This allows the attacker to deploy an arbitrary container image across all managed clusters. The consequence is remote code execution (RCE), enabling the attacker to execute commands and potentially access sensitive information across the entire fleet of managed clusters.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11

Default version status: affected

  • 1787688827 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13

Default version status: affected

  • 1787682112 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14

Default version status: affected

  • 1787682033 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15

Default version status: affected

  • 1787681674 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16

Default version status: affected

  • 1787681686 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17

Default version status: affected

  • 1787681651 to < *unaffected

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