CVE-2026-6848
MediumCVSS 5.4Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk19th percentile - higher than 19% of all known CVEs
Summary
A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay where the password re-verification prompt for sensitive operations, such as token generation or robot account creation, can be bypassed. A user with a timed-out session, or an attacker with access to an idle authenticated browser session, can perform privileged actions without providing valid credentials, despite the UI displaying an error for invalid credentials.
Risk Assessment
Someone with access to an unattended, logged-in browser session can perform sensitive operations without re-authentication. This may lead to unauthorized token or robot account creation and privilege escalation.
Recommendation
Upgrade Red Hat Quay to a version containing the fix. Enforce short idle session timeouts and require re-login for sensitive operations.
Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Quay
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A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay where the build trigger management API fails to verify whether a requested trigger belongs to the specified repository.
- CVE-2026-74247Medium
In Red Hat Quay, a user with FEATURE_BUILD_SUPPORT enabled and repository write access can exploit an SSRF vulnerability within the build API by providing a malicious URL, causing the builder to make requests to internal network addresses.
- CVE-2026-74245Medium
In Red Hat Quay's exported logs feature, an unauthenticated attacker with a valid file ID could download exported action logs without proper authorization. File IDs can be intercepted from plaintext email or webhook callbacks.
- CVE-2026-74244Medium
In Red Hat Quay's Stripe billing webhook handler, an unauthenticated attacker can forge billing events by sending crafted JSON requests to the /webhooks/stripe endpoint without validating the Stripe-Signature header.
- CVE-2026-74243Medium
In Red Hat Quay, when SECURITY_SCANNER_V4_PSK is not set, a remote unauthenticated attacker can send POST requests to the security scanner notification endpoint, allowing flooding of the notification queue and injection of path traversal characters into Clair API URL paths.
- CVE-2026-74242Medium
In Red Hat Quay, an administrator of any repository, by knowing or guessing a target notification's UUID, can read the notification configuration, including sensitive details like webhook URLs, Slack tokens, and email addresses. They can also trigger test notifications for another repository.
- CVE-2026-74241Medium
In Red Hat Quay's external LDAP authentication handling, when an LDAP referral is returned during authentication, the system does not properly escape the username input. This allows an attacker to inject LDAP filter metacharacters, enabling user-existence oracle attacks at the referral DN.
- CVE-2026-74240Medium
In Red Hat Quay's JWT validation for federated robot accounts and SSO authentication, multiple issues related to audience verification and enforcement of azp and sub claims were identified. An attacker with a validly-signed token from the same identity provider could bypass configured security restrictions.
- CVE-2026-16910Medium
In Red Hat Quay, the Slack and generic webhook notification handlers do not validate URLs against SSRF. A repository administrator can force the Quay worker to send POST requests to internal network addresses or cloud endpoints.
- CVE-2026-15927Medium
SSRF vulnerability in Red Hat Quay's repository-level mirror configuration. A repository administrator can supply a crafted hostname causing the Quay mirror worker to make requests to internal network services.
Original NVD description (English source)
A flaw was found in Red Hat Quay. When Red Hat Quay requests password re-verification for sensitive operations, such as token generation or robot account creation, the re-authentication prompt can be bypassed. This allows a user with a timed-out session, or an attacker with access to an idle authenticated browser session, to perform privileged actions without providing valid credentials. The vulnerability enables unauthorized execution of sensitive operations despite the user interface displaying an error for invalid credentials.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

