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

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-28 · updated 2026-10-05
• Weakness: CWE-470

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 2: all versions
• Red Hat streams for Apache Kafka 3: all versions
• Red Hat StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka®: from 0.2.1 before 0.12.9; from 0.13.0 before 0.14.1 — fixed in 0.12.9, 0.14.1

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat StreamsHub Console for Apache Kafka® 0.12.9, 0.14.1. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

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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