# CVE-2026-15140

## Summary

- **CVE ID:** CVE-2026-15140
- **Severity:** HIGH
- **CVSS Score:** 7.7 (CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N)
- **CWE:** CWE-266
- **Published:** Sep 9, 2026
- **Last Modified:** Sep 9, 2026

## Description

A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Only under specific conditions during the initial provisioning of a Portworx storage cluster, a user holding only limited, namespace-scoped permissions could cause the operator to grant broader access than intended, potentially resulting in elevated privileges within the Kubernetes cluster.

## Affected Products

- Everpure — Portworx Operator (0)
- Everpure — Portworx Operator (26.3.2 +)

## References

- [CNA](https://support.everpuredata.com/r/security-bulletins/security-bulletins)

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_Exported from OnDuty AI Vulnerability Intelligence on 2026-09-11._