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The attacker's code reads the projected SA token and gains cross-tenant Strimzi control-plane read+write access.","severity":{"version":"3.1","score":9.9,"vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:L","level":"critical","assessor":"cna","from":"cve"},"epss":{"day":"2026-11-11","score":0.00336,"percentile":0.27335,"model":"v2026.06.15"},"facts":{"in_kev":false,"known_exploited":false,"public_exploit":false,"fix_available":false},"cwes":["CWE-269"],"published":"2026-10-20T11:30:20Z","modified":"2026-11-03T16:54:01Z","products":[{"vendor":"red hat","product":"streams for apache kafka 2"},{"vendor":"red hat","product":"streams for apache kafka 3"},{"vendor":"red hat","product":"streamshub console for apache kafka®"}],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-105312","tags":["vdb-entry","x_refsource_REDHAT","advisory"]},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2510863","tags":["issue-tracking","x_refsource_REDHAT","report"]},{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-105312","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5c9w-jj2v-89qh"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/","tags":["web"]},{"url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/105xxx/CVE-2026-105312.json","tags":["advisory"]},{"url":"https://github.com/streamshub/console","tags":["package"]}],"sources":{"cve":[{"id":"CVE-2026-105312","title":"Console-operator: streams for apache kafka console: tenant-controlled container image on clusterrole-bound pod enables namespace-to-cluster privilege escalation","description":"A Kubernetes tenant with create permission on Console custom resources can set spec.containers.api.spec.image to an arbitrary container image. 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