Medium severity · published Apr 30, 2026
CVE-2026-7163
Assisted-service: assisted-service: authenticated users can gain administrative access to openshift clusters via credential disclosure
5.5
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A vulnerability in the assisted-service REST API, an optional Assisted Installer (assisted-service) component in the Multicluster Engine (MCE), allows an authenticated user with minimal namespace-scoped privileges to obtain administrative credentials for arbitrary clusters provisioned through the hub. The credentials download endpoint (GET /v2/clusters/{cluster_id}/credentials, which returns the kubeadmin password) and the kubeconfig download endpoint are operational in AUTH_TYPE=local mode, the only authentication mode available in on-premises ACM/MCE hub deployments. The local authenticator unconditionally grants full administrative access to any request bearing a valid JWT, with no per-endpoint restrictions. A valid local JWT is embedded as a plaintext query parameter in InfraEnvStatus.ISODownloadURL and is readable by any user who has get rights on an InfraEnv object in their own namespace. The affected components ship as part of Multicluster Engine (MCE). The Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) deployments that include MCE are equally affected. This issue does not affect the hosted SaaS offering (console.redhat.com), which uses a different authentication mode. Successful exploitation gives the attacker the kubeadmin password and kubeconfig for any OpenShift cluster provisioned through the affected hub, granting unrestricted root-level administrative access to those spoke clusters.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 9% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
ME
multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.1 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor, CISA
ME
multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.11 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor, CISA
ME
multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.7 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor, CISA
ME
multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.9 · Red Hat
All versions, or not specified · source: vendor, CISA
Affected product
ME
multicluster engine for Kubernetes 2.1
Red Hat
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