# CVE-2026-96740: Streamshub/console: console-operator: streams for apache kafka console: unfiltered kafka client properties → sa-token exfiltration via config.providers

- Also known as: GHSA-3RPR-3QJQ-FG52
- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 0.12.9, 0.14.1
- Published: 2026-09-28 · Updated: 2026-10-05

## Affected

- console: from 0.2.1, fixed in 0.12.9; from 0.13.0, fixed in 0.14.1
- console-operator: version range not reported
- console-operator: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka. Tenant-supplied Kafka client properties from the Console custom resource are copied into the console-api AdminClient configuration without filtering security-sensitive keys, allowing a Console CR author to set config.providers and bootstrap.servers to exfiltrate the console-api ServiceAccount token to an attacker-controlled broker.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on console, console-operator, upgrade to a fixed version (0.12.9, 0.14.1) per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96740
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539427
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3rpr-3qjq-fg52
- https://github.com/streamshub/console/commit/d45897e12
- https://github.com/streamshub/console/commit/ef13971
- https://github.com/streamshub/console/pull/2957

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