CVE-2026-8715 — Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath

Description (CNA)

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 (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
HashiCorp / Tooling	affected 1.3.0 before 1.5.0

CWE

CWE-552

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-28-vault-secrets-operator-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-read-via-approle-secretidpath/77645

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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CVE

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http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/28/3