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.
Scoring
- Severity
- CRITICAL
- CVSS base score
- 9.6
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS probability
- 0.34%
- CWE
- CWE-552
- Published
- 2026-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-08-28
Affected products
- HashiCorp Tooling
Weakness type
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