IBM Instana Observability is affected by multiple vulnerabilities within Instana Agent container image

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Summary

CVECVE-2026-19274
StatePUBLISHED
Assigneribm
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2026-09-04 16:17:21 UTC
Updated2026-09-08 14:17:08 UTC
DescriptionIBM Observability with Instana (Agent) Build 1.0.303 through 1.0.323 IBM Instana Agent Operator could allow an authenticated Kubernetes tenant to hijack or permanently destroy another tenant's cluster-level RBAC permissions, caused by cluster-scoped RBAC objects being keyed solely by the bare CR name with no namespace disambiguation, allowing a same-named `InstanaAgent` CR in an attacker-controlled namespace to silently overwrite the shared `ClusterRoleBinding` or delete it outright and revoke the victim agent's cluster monitoring access.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v3.1 9.6 CRITICAL from [email protected]

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

EPSS: 0.002100000 probability, percentile 0.111950000 (date 2026-09-07)

Problem Types: CWE-284 | CWE-284 CWE-284 Improper Access Control

VersionSourceTypeScoreSeverityVector
3.1[email protected]Secondary9.6CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
3.1CNACVSS9.6CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 Breakdown

Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
High

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

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA IBM Observability With Instana Agent affected Build 1.0.303 1.0.323 semver Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
www.ibm.com/support/pages/node/7286070 [email protected] www.ibm.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Additional Advisory Data

Solutions

CNA: IBM strongly recommends addressing these vulnerabilities now by updating IBM Observability with Instana to the latest release as described here: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/instana-observability/saas?topic=agents-updating-host Affected Product(s)Version(s)Remediation/Fixes/InstructionsIBM Observability with Instana (Agent)Build 1.0.303 to 1.0.323Build 1.0.324

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