CVE-2026-15140: CWE-266 Incorrect privilege assignment in Everpure Portworx Operator
A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Only under specific conditions during the initial provisioning of a Portworx storage cluster, a user holding only limited, namespace-scoped permissions could cause the operator to grant broader access than intended, potentially resulting in elevated privileges within the Kubernetes cluster.
CVE-2026-15140: CWE-266 Incorrect privilege assignment in Everpure Portworx Operator
Description
A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Only under specific conditions during the initial provisioning of a Portworx storage cluster, a user holding only limited, namespace-scoped permissions could cause the operator to grant broader access than intended, potentially resulting in elevated privileges within the Kubernetes cluster.
CVSS v4.0
Score 7.7high
Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- Everpure
- Date Reserved
- 2026-07-08T17:17:55.388Z
- Cvss Version
- 4.0
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6aa156a8acd9273b49567f8a
Added to database: 09/09/2026, 12:52:56 UTC
Last updated: 09/09/2026, 12:52:56 UTC
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