Vulnerabilites related to external-secrets - external-secrets
CVE-2025-55196 (GCVE-0-2025-55196)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-13 22:54
Modified
2025-08-14 14:50
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Summary
External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems. From version 0.15.0 to before 0.19.2, a vulnerability was discovered where the List() calls for Kubernetes Secret and SecretStore resources performed by the PushSecret controller did not apply a namespace selector. This flaw allowed an attacker to use label selectors to list and read secrets/secret-stores across the cluster, bypassing intended namespace restrictions. An attacker with the ability to create or update PushSecret resources and control SecretStore configurations could exploit this vulnerability to exfiltrate sensitive data from arbitrary namespaces. This could lead to full disclosure of Kubernetes secrets, including credentials, tokens, and other sensitive information stored in the cluster. This vulnerability has been patched in version 0.19.2. A workaround for this issue includes auditing and restricting RBAC permissions so that only trusted service accounts can create or update PushSecret and SecretStore resources.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| external-secrets | external-secrets |
Version: >= 0.15.0, < 0.19.2 |
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CVE-2024-45041 (GCVE-0-2024-45041)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-09 14:54
Modified
2024-09-09 17:11
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management
Summary
External Secrets Operator is a Kubernetes operator that integrates external secret management systems. The external-secrets has a deployment called default-external-secrets-cert-controller, which is bound with a same-name ClusterRole. This ClusterRole has "get/list" verbs of secrets resources. It also has path/update verb of validatingwebhookconfigurations resources. This can be used to abuse the SA token of the deployment to retrieve or get ALL secrets in the whole cluster, capture and log all data from requests attempting to update Secrets, or make a webhook deny all Pod create and update requests. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.10.2.
References
| ► | URL | Tags |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| external-secrets | external-secrets |
Version: < 0.10.2 |
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