Red Hat Multicluster Global Hub: Manager Mis-validates CloudEvents Kafka Source
CVE-2026-71576 Published on August 10, 2026
Multicluster-global-hub: multicluster-global-hub: manager trusts self-asserted evt.source() for leaf-hub identity in all status handlers
A flaw was found in multicluster-global-hub. The manager component improperly validates the source identity of incoming CloudEvents on Kafka status topics. A remote attacker, after compromising a managed hub and obtaining its Kafka client certificate, can manipulate the self-asserted source identity. This allows the attacker to falsify or delete critical data, such as compliance, inventory, and cluster health information, belonging to other hubs in the database.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-71576 is exploitable with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public. 3 days later.
Weakness Type
Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity
The software does not sufficiently verify the origin or authenticity of data, in a way that causes it to accept invalid data.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-71576
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