CVE-2026-96740
A flaw was found in the StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka
- Risk score
- 46/100
- CVSS
- 6.5 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.4%
- Published
- 28 Sep 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- 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 exfilt…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 6.5 medium
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
Original 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.
Last activity 28 Sep 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.