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External Secrets Operator: Privilege escalation with secret overwriting

Exact source revision recorded 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC. It does not establish the source's current position. Latest evidence.

cve-program · CVE-2026-42876

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External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Prior to 2.4.1, a user who only has permission to create ExternalSecret resources can cause the operator to create a Secret that Kubernetes will automatically populate with a long-lived token for the specified service account. This effectively allows the user to impersonate any service account in the namespace without needing direct create permissions on TokenRequest or Secrets of that type. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.4.1.

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11 May 2026 18:58:44 UTC
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6 Oct 2026 15:30:23 UTC
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23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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CVSS 3.1 · 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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