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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2026-08-19 08:38

Modified

2026-08-31 06:11

Summary

Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath

Details

Vault Secrets Operator 1.3.0 up to 1.4.1 is vulnerable to an arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration issue in the AppRole authentication configuration that may allow a tenant with limited Kubernetes RBAC permissions to read files from the operator pod's filesystem and transmit their contents to a tenant-controlled endpoint, potentially leading to privilege escalation within the cluster. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-8715) is fixed in Vault Secrets Operator 1.5.0.

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CVE-2026-8715 (GCVE-0-2026-8715)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-13 20:27 – Updated: 2026-08-28 22:07

Title

Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath

Summary

Severity

9.6 (Critical)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-14 03:56 UTC

CWE

CWE-552 - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Assigner

HashiCorp mitre root Scorecard

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-28-vau…
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/28/3

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
HashiCorp	Tooling	Affected: 1.3.0 , < 1.5.0 (semver)

Credits

This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Trung Nguyen (@everping) of CyStack and Artem Cherezov (https://github.com/cherez0ff).

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