CRITICAL 9.6 NVD

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 t

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.

References

Published: 2026-08-13 · Source: NVD · Feed updated: 2026-08-14
This critical severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 9.6 was published on 2026-08-13 via NVD.

Risk Timeline

CVE Disclosed2026-08-13 · 0 days ago

Remediation Resources

Official Advisory
discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-28-vault-secrets-operator-vulnerabl
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