Is CVE-2026-8715 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-8715?

CVE-2026-8715 has a CVSS v3 severity of CRITICAL (9.6).

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CVE-2026-8715

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.