CVE-2026-71845 Insights-client: insights-client: ccx_token bearer credential logged in clear text at startup via setdefault()

What is CVE-2026-71845?

CVE-2026-71845 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11, published on 11 Aug 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A flaw was found in insights-client. The setDefault() function logs the value of every environment variable it processes, including CCX_TOKEN, a bearer credential used in disconnected cluster deployments. When glog verbosity is set to level 2 or higher, the token is written in clear text to the pod log on every startup. An attacker with access to pod logs or centralized logging could obtain the credential, leading to unauthorized access to the CCX API.

Weakness: CWE-532

Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-71845?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Redhat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes, Redhat Insights-Client.

How do I fix CVE-2026-71845?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-71845 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2026-71845 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-71845 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11

• CVE-2026-4740 Open Cluster Management (OCM): Cross-cluster privilege escalation via improper Kubernetes client certificate renewal validation High 8.2
• CVE-2023-3027 Privilege escalation in RHACM High 7.8
• CVE-2022-3841 Server-side request forgery in RHACM High 7.8
• CVE-2026-71474 Insights-client-rhel9: insights-client: pull-secret bearer token written to logs on non-200 ccx response High 7.1
• CVE-2026-71475 Insights-client-rhel9: insights-client: spoke-controlled clusterid injected unencoded into insights api url path Medium 6.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-h2jx-ffv3-pwqm.