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CVE-2024-36540

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-07-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-277

Description

Insecure permissions in external-secrets v0.9.16 allows attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges by obtaining the service account's token.

Affected products

• external-secrets: 0.9.16

References

• https://gist.github.com/HouqiyuA/a4834f3c8450f9d89e2bc4d5c4beef6a
• https://gist.github.com/HouqiyuA/a4834f3c8450f9d89e2bc4d5c4beef6a

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