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CVE-2026-8715

HashiCorp Tooling — Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath

EPSS 0.5%CVSS 9.6
critical.is priorityof 100
37
CVSS 9.6 (CNA)9.6 / 10 × 3028.8Not in CISA KEV+300.0EPSS percentile 40.7.407 × 208.1No public exploit+100.0SSVC exploitation: none+100.0
Description · from the CVE record

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.

Affected

ProductAffectedFixed inSource
Tooling1.3.0 – < 1.5.01.5.0CNA

Scores by source

HashiCorp (CNA)9.6CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA ADPSSVCExploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total

References

refdiscuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-28-vault-secrets-operator-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-read-via-approle-secretidpath/77645refopenwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/28/3