Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath
At a glance
Severity
CRITICAL 9.6
EPSS
EPSS 0.47 % · percentile 41 (2026-10-27)
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
HashiCorp
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis
Description
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.
