OBS-2026-000168: CVE-2026-78234

1. Observe What changed? →

2. Understand Why does it matter? →

3. Track How does risk evolve? →

4. Predict What happens next? →

5. Decide What to do? →

6. Verify What happened? →

7. Remember Persistent memory

IMMUTABLE CANONICAL OBSERVATION

OBS-2026-000168

Target Entity: CVE-2026-78234 — Hawtio Operator OpenShift Service CA Signing Key Theft and Cluster Identity Impersonation

MODE: RETROSPECTIVE

Methodology: HTS-3.1

Observed UTC:
2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z

Event Date:
2026-03-05

Epistemic State:
● KNOWN

Cryptographic Digest:
sha256-5bb562fcf029fff…

1. Verified Evidence & Observed State

This canonical observation confirms the following factual event on the threat surface:

Hermes Threat Score (HTS)

95 / 100

EXTREME

CVSS v3.1

9.9

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

EPSS (30-Day Exploitation)

64.8%

Percentile: 97.4th

Weaponization & CISA KEV

🛡️ Not in KEV

Exploit Maturity: functional

2. Decomposed Epistemic Confidence Vector

Hermes rejects false certainty and explicitly exposes its decomposed confidence vector:

Evidence Integrity94%

Model Stability98%

Data Completeness95%

Actionable Decisiveness85%

3. Primary Sources & Provenance Chain

Observation OBS-2026-000168 is strictly anchored to verified records from the following primary entities:

Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2026:66120
Red Hat Bugzilla Bug 2524894
NIST National Vulnerability Database CVE-2026-78234

Causal Intelligence Lineage

Primary Source → OBS-2026-000168 → CVE-2026-78234 → Risk Trajectory → Action Directive

4. Target Entity & Correlated Intelligence

Primary Vulnerability Dossier: CVE-2026-78234
Dynamic Risk Trajectories: View risk trajectory analysis
Decision Engine: View prescriptive remediation directives

5. Observation Sequence & Chain of Custody

Chronological lineage for entity CVE-2026-78234:

Preceding Observation: None (Initial Baseline)
Succeeding Observation: OBS-2026-000169

Observation ID	Date	Mode	Score	Observed Fact
👉 `OBS-2026-000168`	`2026-03-05`	RETROSPECTIVE	95	Initial baseline observation created upon public disclosure and ingestion.
`OBS-2026-000169`	`2026-09-21`	LIVE	95	State change observed: threat score adjusted by +0 points; CISA KEV or weaponized exploit verified.

6. Reproducibility & Cryptographic Verification

(Section 77 Mandate: “Observations must be reproducible”)

Fetch and verify this observation record directly from the machine-readable API:

# 1. Fetch canonical observation record
curl -sSL https://hermes-codex.vercel.app/api/observations/OBS-2026-000168.json

# 2. Verify cryptographic SHA-256 integrity
curl -sSL https://hermes-codex.vercel.app/api/observations/OBS-2026-000168.json | sha256sum

OASIS STIX 2.1 Mapping (`observed-data`)

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  "modified": "2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z",
  "first_observed": "2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z",
  "last_observed": "2026-03-05T00:00:00.000Z",
  "number_observed": 1,
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    "x_hermes_integrity_hash": "sha256-5bb562fcf029fffe4e2a27d100c90d564682537ceb9d4149a1c2472704ee00e4"
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