CVE-2026-78234

Critical

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.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.9
Exploit probability—
ProductRed Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4
PublishedSep 8, 2026
First seenSep 8, 2026
Weakness typeCWE-295CWE-295

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Red Hat Red Hat build of Apache Camel - HawtIO 4No range specified—

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