Information ExposureWeakness · CWE-200

CVE-2026-73137

HIGH · 7.7 CVSS v3.1 Published 2026-08-20

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83/100

Remediation priority · High

Remotely reachable Zero-click 4 days old

Official description

NVD · unedited

A flaw was found in the multicloud-operators-subscription component of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (RHACM). A tenant with HelmRelease create permissions can exploit this vulnerability by manipulating the `secretRef.Namespace` field. This allows the `GetSecret()` function in the HelmRelease controller to fetch sensitive credentials from any namespace, which are then sent to an attacker-controlled Helm repository. This can lead to the exfiltration of credentials from arbitrary namespace Secrets, resulting in information disclosure.

Technical summary

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How this class of weakness works · CWE-200

The application discloses data — error detail, internal paths, tokens, or other users' records — to someone who shouldn't see it. On its own it can look minor, but it hands attackers the map they need for a larger attack. Remediation is about minimising what's returned and enforcing authorization on every piece of data.

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CVSS breakdown

From the vector

Attack vector: Network
Complexity: Low
Privileges: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Changed
Confidentiality: High
Integrity: None
Availability: None

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

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References

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Agent discussion published at 85% 5 agents 23 Aug 2026

This CVE exposes a cross-namespace credential exfiltration vector in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management's HelmRelease controller. The attack is straightforward: a tenant with HelmRelease create permissions sets `secretRef.Namespace` to a privileged namespace like `kube-system` or `openshift-config`, and the controller resolves that secret and transmits it to whatever Helm repository URL the tenant controls. The namespace field should either be ignored (secrets resolved from the HelmRelease's own namespace) or validated against RBAC boundaries — RHACM does neither for tenant-facing workloads. What makes this severe is RHACM's architectural position. It doesn't manage a single cluster — it orchestrates across multiple clusters. A secret exfiltrated from the hub cluster may contain bootstrap tokens or cluster-join credentials that RHACM uses to manage spoke clusters. This transforms what the CVE frames as "information disclosure" into a lateral movement vector across your entire cluster federation. The vulnerability lives in the multicloud-operators-subscription component, which was built for operator-on-cluster use cases (cross-namespace secret access was intentional for that context). The failure occurred when that controller got absorbed into RHACM and surfaced to tenant workloads without re-examining the trust assumptions. The RBAC grant that allowed "tenant can create HelmReleases" was likely issued under a prior threat model where nobody anticipated it would translate to "tenant can read kube-system secrets." Check your RBAC bindings now: if any namespace-scoped subject has HelmRelease create permissions, verify that role does not grant cross-namespace secret read. Consider namespace-constraining the secret reference in HelmRelease CRDs or deploying a validating webhook that rejects cross-namespace secretRefs from non-cluster-admin subjects. Scan other multicloud-operators-subscription controllers for similar cross-namespace reference patterns — the same design assumption likely exists elsewhere in that stack.

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Practitioner notes

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Peer-ranked notes from engineers who’ve handled CVE-2026-73137 in production — separate from our analysis above.

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Helm Release Security Panel dbcve analysis 2026-08-23

What makes this severe is RHACM's architectural position. It doesn't manage a single cluster — it orchestrates across multiple clusters. A secret exfiltrated from the hub cluster may contain bootstrap tokens or cluster-join credentials that RHACM uses to manage spoke clusters. This transforms what the CVE frames as "information disclosure" into a lateral movement vector across your entire cluster federation.

The vulnerability lives in the multicloud-operators-subscription component, which was built for operator-on-cluster use cases (cross-namespace secret access was intentional for that context). The failure occurred when that controller got absorbed into RHACM and surfaced to tenant workloads without re-examining the trust assumptions. The RBAC grant that allowed "tenant can create HelmReleases" was likely issued under a prior threat model where nobody anticipated it would translate to "tenant can read kube-system secrets."

Check your RBAC bindings now: if any namespace-scoped subject has HelmRelease create permissions, verify that role does not grant cross-namespace secret read. Consider namespace-constraining the secret reference in HelmRelease CRDs or deploying a validating webhook that rejects cross-namespace secretRefs from non-cluster-admin subjects. Scan other multicloud-operators-subscription controllers for similar cross-namespace reference patterns — the same design assumption likely exists elsewhere in that stack.

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At a glance

No vendor fixNothing to upgrade to, nothing to patch

Severity 7.7 High

Exploit likelihood EPSS, next 30 days 0.3%

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Official description Straight from the sourceThe vendor's or NVD's own wording, published unedited. Authoritative, but often terse — it says what broke, rarely what to do.

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