Everpure Portworx Operator up to 26.3.1 permission

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Everpure Portworx Operator up to 26.3.1. It has been classified as very critical. The affected element is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to permission. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-15140. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. Upgrading the affected component is recommended.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Everpure Portworx Operator up to 26.3.1 and classified as very critical. This issue affects an unknown code block. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-275. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Only under specific conditions during the initial provisioning of a Portworx storage cluster, a user holding only limited, namespace-scoped permissions could cause the operator to grant broader access than intended, potentially resulting in elevated privileges within the Kubernetes cluster.

The advisory is shared at support.everpuredata.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-15140 since 07/08/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 09/09/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1222 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 26.3.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-74894). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 9.9
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 9.5

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VulDB Temp Score: 9.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Permission
CWE: CWE-275 / CWE-266
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined
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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Portworx Operator 26.3.2

Timelineinfo

07/08/2026 CVE reserved
09/09/2026 +63 days Advisory disclosed
09/09/2026 +0 days VulDB entry created
09/09/2026 +0 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: support.everpuredata.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2026-15140 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2026-15140
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-401693
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Entryinfo

Created: 09/09/2026 14:59
Updated: 09/09/2026 15:32
Changes: 09/09/2026 14:59 (65), 09/09/2026 15:32 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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