Vulnerability · Published Aug 13, 2026 · Assigned by HashiCorp
CVE-2026-8715Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath
Critical 9.6
In plain English
A critical-severity security flaw in Tooling from HashiCorp. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 41% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official 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.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-552 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N