Bug 2512568 (CVE-2026-71845)
| Summary: | CVE-2026-71845 insights-client: CVE-2026-71845 insights-client: CCX_TOKEN bearer credential logged in clear text at startup via setDefault() | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Product Security <prodsec-ir-bot> |
| Status: | NEW --- | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | gparvin, rhaigner, security-response-team |
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| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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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.
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The setDefault() function in pkg/config/config.go logs every environment variable it consumes via glog.V(2).Infof("Using %s from environment: %s", env, val), including CCX_TOKEN — a bearer credential used by disconnected clusters as an alternative to cloud.redhat.com (which is unreachable from their environments). At -v>=2 verbosity, the token is printed in clear text to the pod log on every startup. The credential is then accessible to any principal with pods/log access in the open-cluster-management namespace or access to centralized logging (Loki/Elasticsearch), crossing a privilege boundary since log readers typically do not have secrets access to the credential source. Code path: main.go:36 SetupConfig() → pkg/config/config.go:46 setDefault(&Cfg.CCXToken, "CCX_TOKEN", "") → config.go:62 glog.V(2).Infof("Using %s from environment: %s", env, val). Preconditions: (1) Operator has set -v>=2 on the insights-client Deployment (non-default but routinely enabled for debugging); (2) CCX_TOKEN environment variable is configured (disconnected cluster deployments). Upstream: stolostron/insights-client