CVE-2026-8715: CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties in HashiCorp Tooling
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.
CVE-2026-8715: CWE-552: Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties in HashiCorp Tooling
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 9.6critical
Affected software
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Weaknesses
Technical Details
- Data Version
- 5.2
- Assigner Short Name
- HashiCorp
- Date Reserved
- 2026-05-15T21:03:34.973Z
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Remediation Level
- null
Threat ID: 6a7e2c1bbf8831d539c6f680
Added to database: 08/13/2026, 20:42:03 UTC
Last enriched: 08/21/2026, 14:07:16 UTC
Last updated: 09/06/2026, 10:52:11 UTC
Views: 57
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