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CVE-2026-42875

External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets.

MEDIUM 5.3EPSS 0.24%

Does this matter?

Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.

Description

External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Prior to 2.4.0, Namespaced SecretStore resources that used CAProvider with type ConfigMap could resolve CA material from another namespace when caProvider.namespace was set. This bypassed the namespace boundary enforced for SecretStore-backed references in providers that rely on the shared runtime CA resolver. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.4.0.

CVSS 4.0: 5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M
EPSS: 0.24% probability · 15th percentile
CISA KEV: Not listed
Weakness: CWE-285, CWE-668
Source: security-advisories@github.com

References

https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/security/advisories/GHSA-wv26-88m5-6h59

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.