{"id":"CVE-2026-8715","summary":"Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath","details":"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.","aliases":["BIT-consul-2026-8715"],"modified":"2026-08-30T03:30:53.589988850Z","published":"2026-08-13T20:27:39.489Z","database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"HashiCorp","cwe_ids":["CWE-552"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/8xxx/CVE-2026-8715.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/28/3"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-28-vault-secrets-operator-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-read-via-approle-secretidpath/77645"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/8xxx/CVE-2026-8715.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8715"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault-secrets-operator","events":[{"introduced":"3795eab559e9179aa823298235ba99e4feb46cd7"},{"fixed":"999a8e61fe818cef84b439899a1d94e37c20f841"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"1.3.0"},{"fixed":"1.5.0"}],"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD"}}],"versions":["v1.4.0","v1.4.1","v1.3.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-8715.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N"}]}