CVE-2026-8715

CRITICAL 9.6

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

CVSS Score

9.6

EPSS Score

0.0%

EPSS Percentile

0th

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.

CWE	CWE-552
Vendor	hashicorp
Product	tooling
Published	Aug 13, 2026

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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector

Attack Complexity

Privileges Required

User Interaction

Scope

Confidentiality

Integrity

Availability

Affected Versions

HashiCorp / Tooling

1.3.0 < 1.5.0

References

NVD ↗ CVE.org ↗ EPSS Data ↗

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

Credits

This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Trung Nguyen (@everping) of CyStack and Artem Cherezov (https://github.com/cherez0ff).