CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-78234

9.9 CRITICAL Published 2026-09-08 Modified 2026-09-08 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-09-08
Last modified
2026-09-08
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.9 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-295

Description

A flaw was found in hawtio-operator. The operator reads the OpenShift Service CA private signing key from the openshift-service-ca namespace and uses it to mint client certificates with a Subject Common Name (CN) supplied by the author of a namespaced Hawtio custom resource. Because the operator ships a ClusterRole that aggregates Hawtio CR permissions into the edit and admin roles, any user with edit access in any namespace can obtain a Service-CA-signed certificate with an arbitrary subject. This certificate can be used to impersonate any in-cluster service identity to peers that trust the Service CA for client authentication, including Jolokia agents and other Service-CA-trusting components.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-295 Improper Certificate Validation weakness

References