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title: "CVE-2026-93017: OpenShift insights-operator-gather - Broken Access Control"
description: "OpenShift insights-operator-gather ClusterRole grants the operator's service account unrestricted read access to all secrets across all namespaces, letting attackers with gather service account access read any secret, exploit requires attacker to spawn a pod with the gather service account."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-93017/
---

# CVE-2026-93017 OpenShift insights-operator-gather - Broken Access Control

OpenShift insights-operator-gather ClusterRole grants the operator's service account unrestricted read access to all secrets across all namespaces, letting attackers with gather service account access read any secret, exploit requires attacker to spawn a pod with the gather service account.

CVSS base score 7.7 /10

High

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

EPSS

0.21% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93017)

## Details

Type

Broken Access Control

Impact

Information Disclosure

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

Published

8 October 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-269](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/269.html)

## Vendor fix

Restrict the ClusterRole permissions to limit secret access or remove unnecessary secret read permissions.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93017](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-93017)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93017](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-93017)
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2515741](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2515741)

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