CRITICALVulnerability
CVE-2026-8715
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.
Properties
- severity
- CRITICAL
- score
- 9.6
- epss_score
- 0.00341
- cve_id
- CVE-2026-8715
- vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- published_at
- 2026-08-13T21:18:32.333
- last_modified
- 2026-08-28T23:17:13.230
- epss_percentile
- 0.26901
Related Entities (3)
ENRICHED_BY (1)
→[Source]FIRST EPSS
HAS_WEAKNESS (1)
→[Weakness]Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
DESCRIBED_BY (1)
→[Source]NVD
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