# Acm-search-v2-api-rhel9: search-v2-api: unbounded tokenreviews cache allows unauthenticated memory-exhaustion dos

CVE record · `CVE-2026-71469`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2026-71469`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 7.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** redhat
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-770](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/770.html)
- **Tags:** [Denial of service](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/dos.md)
- **Technologies:** [Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-advanced-cluster-management-for-kubernetes-2-11.md) · [Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-advanced-cluster-management-for-kubernetes-2-13.md) · [Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-advanced-cluster-management-for-kubernetes-2-14.md) · [Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-advanced-cluster-management-for-kubernetes-2-15.md) · [Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-advanced-cluster-management-for-kubernetes-2-16.md) · [Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-advanced-cluster-management-for-kubernetes-2-17.md)
- **Published:** 12 Aug 2026
- **Updated:** 5 Sept 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 12 Aug 2026, 21:40 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 Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.11.
  - unaffected: `1787689524 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhacm2/acm-search-v2-api-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.13.
  - unaffected: `1787263804 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhacm2/acm-search-v2-api-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.14.
  - unaffected: `1786723845 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhacm2/acm-search-v2-api-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.15.
  - unaffected: `1787238618 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhacm2/acm-search-v2-api-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.16.
  - unaffected: `1787191668 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhacm2/acm-search-v2-api-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2.17.
  - unaffected: `1787229541 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `rhacm2/acm-search-v2-api-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

- 7.5 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H`, from CNA (redhat)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0074, the 54th percentile, on 5 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 12 Aug 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2026-71469](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71469)
- [NVD: CVE-2026-71469](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71469)

### References from the CNA

- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60386> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60387> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60388> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60389> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60390> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:60391> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71469> (vdb-entry, redhat)
- <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512148> (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.

## Check whether this affects you

This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it. Compare the affected versions above with what you run.

- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), `get_advisory` returns this record and `search_advisories` finds related ones. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/CVE-2026-71469>
- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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