CVE-2026-121837Red Hat Exploit Intelligence incorrect authorization
CVE-2026-121837 is a incorrect authorization in Red Hat Exploit Intelligence, rated medium (4.3 on CVSS 3.1).
Why this priority: Medium severity, with no exploitation signal.
Published · Updated · NVD status: Awaiting Analysis
What it is
A permission check exists but gets the answer wrong for some callers.
How it is reached
An attacker can exploit it over the network, with an ordinary user account, and nobody has to click anything.
What an attacker gains
The direct impact is limited: partial access to data or a partial outage. In practice, this kind of flaw lets an attacker reach data or actions their role should not allow.
Is it being exploited?
There is no public report of exploitation yet.
What to do
- No fixed version is listed yet. Find every place Red Hat Exploit Intelligence runs, watch the references for a fix, and plan a replacement if it is no longer supported.
- While there is no fix, review who holds accounts that can reach it.
Description from NVD
A flaw was found in the REST Data Panache component of Quarkus. When a security constraint is applied to an entity property using the @SecureField annotation on its getter method rather than the field itself, the generated REST resource fails to enforce this constraint for filtering and sorting operations. This allows an authenticated user to infer sensitive data values by observing which records match specific filter criteria or how they are ordered, even though the values are omitted from the final response.
What this means for your architecture.
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Components it touches
- Permission checks in APIs and admin surfaces. The flaw sits between one role or tenant and another.
- Multi-tenant services. The flaw sits between one role or tenant and another.
Trust boundaries in play
- Authenticated network access. An account is needed, so exposure follows who can sign in: customers, partners or staff.
- Between one role or tenant and another. An attacker who crosses it can reach data or actions their role should not allow.
Questions to answer about your own systems
- Where does Red Hat Exploit Intelligence run in your systems, and at which version?
- Which of those instances can be reached from the internet or partner networks?
- What can it reach once compromised: which data stores, secrets and services?
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- Exploitation status from CISA’s Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
- Exploit likelihood from FIRST’s Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS), refreshed daily.
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