HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator up to 1.4.x AppRole Authentication Configuration path traversal

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator up to 1.4.x. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component AppRole Authentication Configuration. The manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-8715. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in HashiCorp Vault Secrets Operator up to 1.4.x. This issue affects an unknown functionality of the component AppRole Authentication Configuration. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

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.

The advisory is shared at discuss.hashicorp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-8715 since 05/15/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1006 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 1.5.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• HashiCorp

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• Vault Secrets Operator

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• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.3
• 1.4

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• open-source

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