# CVE-2026-18382: Project-koku/koku-metrics-operator: koku-metrics-operator: service-account client credentials sent to user-controlled token\_url

- Severity: CVSS 6.8 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-07-30 · Updated: 2026-10-12

## Affected

- costmanagement/costmanagement-metrics-rhel9-operator: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in koku-metrics-operator. The operator's CostManagementMetricsConfig custom resource allows a user able to edit the CR to specify an arbitrary OAuth token endpoint. When authentication.type is set to service-account, the operator sends the tenant's Red Hat SSO client_id and client_secret to this user-controlled URL, allowing the attacker to obtain the credentials.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on costmanagement/costmanagement-metrics-rhel9-operator, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:81201
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-18382
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2509253

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