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Critical 9.9Published Oct 20, 2026

CVE-2026-105312Console-operator: streams for apache kafka console: tenant-controlled container image on clusterrole-bound pod enables namespace-to-cluster privilege escalation

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It affects Red Hat StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka® and 1 other product. Add what you run to find out whether that includes you.

No exploitation reported and no EPSS estimate yet.

A Kubernetes tenant with create permission on Console custom resources can set spec.containers.api.spec.image to an arbitrary container image. The operator deploys this image into a pod whose ServiceAccount is bound via ClusterRoleBinding to a ClusterRole granting cluster-wide get/list/watch on all Strimzi CRDs (including KafkaUsers), patch on Kafkas/KafkaRebalances, and cluster-monitoring-view. The attacker's code reads the projected SA token and gains cross-tenant Strimzi control-plane read+write access.

CVSS
9.9 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-269
Known exploited
Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
Not loaded for this CVE
Assigned by
redhat
NVD analysis
Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated
Oct 20, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals
Oct 20, 2026

Affected products

Affected products
Red Hat StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka®
red_hat:streamshub_console_for_apache_kafka (from the name)
from 0.2.0 before 0.12.10; from 0.13.0 before 0.14.2
CNA record
2
CNA record

References

  • vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
  • issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat

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