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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.

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

CWE-552

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

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