CVE•Published 2026-09-15•Modified 2026-09-30•0 articles on news•5 live references•NVD data

CVE-2026-55226

Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)

CVSS v3.1

5.4

MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N

EPSS percentile

Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 92% of all CVEs

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-269Improper Privilege Management CWE-272Least Privilege Violation

Description

Strimzi provides a way to run an Apache Kafka cluster on Kubernetes or OpenShift in various deployment configurations. In Strimzi 1.0.0 and earlier, deploying only the Topic Operator or only the User Operator through the Kafka custom resource leaves the Entity Operator ServiceAccount with RBAC permissions for both components. The excess permissions can allow access to KafkaUser custom resources and Secrets when the User Operator is absent, or access to KafkaTopic custom resources when the Topic Operator is absent. This issue is fixed in versions 1.0.1 and 1.1.0.

Timeline

Published 2026-09-15

Modified 2026-09-30

External references

NVD MITRE Exploit-DB GitHub PoC VulnCheck

Search for exposed instances

Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).

Shodan · vuln tag0 hosts

vuln:CVE-2026-55226

Hosts Shodan has explicitly fingerprinted as vulnerable.

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Shodan report

vuln:CVE-2026-55226

Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.

Censys

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