# Openshift/router: openshift/router: mtls client certificate spoofing via unstripped x-ssl-client headers on http frontend

CVE record · `CVE-2026-46579`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-46579`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.4 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** redhat
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-287](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/287.html)
- **Tags:** [Authentication bypass](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/auth-bypass.md)
- **Technologies:** [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-12.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-13.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-14.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-15.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-16.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-17.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-18.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-19.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-20.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-21.md) · [Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-openshift-container-platform-4-22.md)
- **Published:** 29 May 2026
- **Updated:** 10 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 29 May 2026, 09:50 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.12.
  - unaffected: `1784323891 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13.
  - unaffected: `1784056734 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.
  - unaffected: `1784587649 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.
  - unaffected: `1784580646 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.16.
  - unaffected: `1784331638 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17.
  - unaffected: `1784321465 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18.
  - unaffected: `1783719377 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.19.
  - unaffected: `1783445642 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.20.
  - unaffected: `1781639027 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.21.
  - unaffected: `1781552170 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.22.
  - unaffected: `1781643967 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `openshift4/ose-haproxy-router-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 7.4 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`, from CNA (redhat) (used for this record)
- 7.4 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N`, from ADP (redhat-SADP)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0045, the 39th percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 29 May 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-46579](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-46579)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-46579](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-46579)

### References from the CNA

- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27009> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27044> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:27063> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:37580> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40022> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:40828> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43227> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43253> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:43331> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47703> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47728> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-46579> (vdb-entry, redhat)
- <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2483181> (issue-tracking, redhat)

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

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- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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