# Pulumi: Elevated errors when decrypting ESC environments

> Pulumi status incident “Elevated errors when decrypting ESC environments” on 2026-05-06: impact none (vendor’s label), -23555 min, 1 update(s). Archived by Rewindex.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/company/pulumi/incidents/xt4d22bv4jdw
Last updated: 2026-05-06T19:05:11Z

- Impact (vendor’s label): none
- Status: resolved
- Started: 2026-05-06 19:05 UTC · Resolved: 2026-04-20 10:30 UTC · Duration: -23555 min
- Updates: 1
- [Vendor status page: https://stspg.io/wzttk9fjyfzh](https://stspg.io/wzttk9fjyfzh)
- [Company: Pulumi](https://rewindex.com/company/pulumi.md)

## Timeline of updates

- **resolved** 2026-04-20 10:30 UTC: Some Pulumi Cloud organizations experienced elevated errors when decrypting ESC environments. A subset of environment revisions were affected, and those revisions failed to decrypt 100% of the time during the window. Overall, 3.32% of decrypt-attempt requests across Pulumi Cloud failed due to this issue. At the start of the window, we rolled out a change that prevented secret ciphertext copied from an ESC environment from being decrypted in other environments. Customers who had previously copied ciphertext between environments were affected. Users saw a message: “decryption failed. If this secret's ciphertext was copied from a different environment, copy and paste the plaintext instead.” This change was intended as a security improvement, but the customer impact was higher than expected, so the change was rolled back. The ESC team has conducted an internal postmortem to understand the misjudged customer impact, improve our responsiveness to scenarios like this, and created a plan to launch this security improvement without customer disruption.

## Cite this

Status incident (vendor impact label: none) posted by Pulumi, started 2026-05-06 19:05 UTC, resolved after -23555 min, 1 update(s).

- Canonical URL: https://rewindex.com/company/pulumi/incidents/xt4d22bv4jdw
- Citation: Pulumi, “Elevated errors when decrypting ESC environments” (2026-05-06 19:05 UTC). Archived by Rewindex: https://rewindex.com/company/pulumi/incidents/xt4d22bv4jdw (CC BY 4.0).
- Markdown link: `[Pulumi: Elevated errors when decrypting ESC environments (2026-05-06)](https://rewindex.com/company/pulumi/incidents/xt4d22bv4jdw)`


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