Description
A flaw was found in the OpenShift Cloud Credential Operator Mint-mode IAM policies for AWS. Operator credentials are provisioned with account-wide scope for destructive actions rather than being restricted to cluster-owned resources, enabling cross-scope impact after credential compromise.
Published: 2026-06-04
Score: 7.2 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Workaround

Migrate from CCO Mint mode to STS mode (AWS Security Token Service), which eliminates long-lived IAM users and uses short-lived role-scoped OIDC tokens. Alternatively, switch to CCO Manual mode or Passthrough mode. If mode migration is not immediately feasible, manually restrict the IAM policies on CCO-provisioned IAM users by adding tag-based conditions scoping destructive actions to resources tagged with kubernetes.io/cluster/<infraName>=owned. For S3 actions, restrict Resource to the specific registry bucket ARN rather than "*". Enterprise defense-in-depth: deploy AWS Service Control Policies (SCPs) to deny destructive actions from non-approved principals, and apply IAM Permission Boundaries to CCO-created users.

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History

Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:15:00 +0000

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Description A flaw was found in the OpenShift Cloud Credential Operator Mint-mode IAM policies for AWS. Operator credentials are provisioned with account-wide scope for destructive actions rather than being restricted to cluster-owned resources, enabling cross-scope impact after credential compromise.
Title Cloud-credential-operator: cco mint-mode credentialsrequest manifests grant account-wide iam access beyond cluster scope on aws
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat openshift
Weaknesses CWE-250
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat openshift
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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Redhat Openshift
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-06-04T12:04:49.706Z

Reserved: 2026-06-04T11:52:56.953Z

Link: CVE-2026-10843

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-06-04T12:16:24.970

Modified: 2026-06-04T12:16:24.970

Link: CVE-2026-10843

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