Answer in brief
CVE-2026-78234 records a Critical severity (CVSS 9.9) vulnerability in Hawtio-operator: hawtio-operator: service-ca signing oracle allows arbitrary-cn certificate issuance to namespace edit users. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-gateway-rhel9 (generic), Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-operator-bundle (generic), Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-rhel9 (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 9.9. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-gateway-rhel9 (generic), Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-operator-bundle (generic), Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-rhel9 (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-gateway-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-operator-bundlegeneric | * | Not reported |
| Red Hat/rhbac-4/hawtio-rhel9generic | * | Not reported |
Published upstream
Sep 8, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Sep 8, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Sep 8, 2026
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.
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