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Critical · 9.9 CVE-2026-105312 EUVD-2026-104964GHSA-5c9w-jj2v-89qh

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

Published Oct 20, 2026 · Updated Nov 3, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka® 0.2.0 – < 0.12.10, 0.13.0 – < 0.14.2 0.12.10
Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 2 — —
Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 3 — —

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