# CVE-2026-8715: Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath

> CVE-2026-8715: Vault Secrets Operator vulnerable to arbitrary file read and credential exfiltration via AppRole secretIDPath. CVSS 9.6 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-8715
Last updated: 2026-08-28T23:17:13Z

- Published: 2026-08-13 20:27 UTC · Updated: 2026-08-28 23:17 UTC · Assigner: HashiCorp
- CVSS: 9.6 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Critical · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS: 0.47%, 40th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-552

## 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 vendors and products

- HashiCorp: Tooling

## Tracked companies

- [HashiCorp](https://rewindex.com/company/hashicorp.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-8715)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-8715)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-28-vault-secrets-operator-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-read-via-approle-secretidpath/77645](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-28-vault-secrets-operator-vulnerable-to-arbitrary-file-read-via-approle-secretidpath/77645)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-8715 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-8715.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-8715 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:01:01.142Z