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GHSA-99CP-G9Q7-3P6C

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-13 21:36 – Updated: 2026-08-29 00:30

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.

Severity

9.6 (Critical)


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

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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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