HIGH 8.8 NVD

CVE-2026-70495

A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. This component's `search-serviceaccount` has overly broad permissions, allowing it to impersonate users and groups acros

A flaw was found in search-v2-operator. This component's `search-serviceaccount` has overly broad permissions, allowing it to impersonate users and groups across the entire cluster. If an attacker gains access to any of the pods running under this service account, they could exploit this to achieve `system:masters` access, granting them full control over the cluster.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-70495
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511031

Published: 2026-08-17 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-08-17

This high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.8 was published on 2026-08-17 via NVD.

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