Bug 2512150 (CVE-2026-71471)

Summary: CVE-2026-71471 acm-search-v2-rhel9: CVE-2026-71471 search-v2-operator: Hub Search CR Collector.ImageOverride propagated to every spoke as arbitrary container image
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A flaw was found in acm-search-v2-rhel9. An attacker with administrative privileges on the hub cluster, specifically with patch access to the Search Custom Resource (CR), could exploit a vulnerability in the `Collector.ImageOverride` field. This allows the attacker to deploy an arbitrary container image across all managed clusters. The consequence is remote code execution (RCE), enabling the attacker to execute commands and potentially access sensitive information across the entire fleet of managed clusters.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-06 19:35:36 UTC 
A single hub-side Search CR field (Collector.ImageOverride) selects the container image deployed to all managed clusters via addon-framework ManifestWork. The spoke pod runs under a ClusterRole granting */* get/list/watch (FIND-006), so this is fleet-wide secret-read RCE. The addon.go:55 default comes from env COLLECTOR_IMAGE, and the package-global is mutated without restart on first reconcile only. A hub admin or any principal with patch access to the Search CR can replace the collector image across the entire fleet.

Upstream: stolostron/search-v2-operator