CVE-2026-96740
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CVE-2026-96740 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 6.5/10 on the CVSS scale. A flaw was found in the StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka. Tenant-supplied Kafka client properties from the Console custom resource are copied into the console-api AdminClient configuration without filtering security-sensitive keys, allowing a Console CR author to set config.providers and bootstrap.servers to exfiltrate the console-api ServiceAccount token to an attacker-controlled broker..
Description
A flaw was found in the StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka. Tenant-supplied Kafka client properties from the Console custom resource are copied into the console-api AdminClient configuration without filtering security-sensitive keys, allowing a Console CR author to set config.providers and bootstrap.servers to exfiltrate the console-api ServiceAccount token to an attacker-controlled broker.
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Source: CNA advisory (CVE.org). NVD analysis pending.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka® | >= 0.2.1, < 0.12.9; >= 0.13.0, < 0.14.1 |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka 2 | All versions |
| Red Hat | streams for Apache Kafka 3 | All versions |
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