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CVE-2026-15140

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.7 v4.0)
• 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: 2026-09-09 · updated 2026-09-09
• Weakness: CWE-266

Description

A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Only under specific conditions during the initial provisioning of a Portworx storage cluster, a user holding only limited, namespace-scoped permissions could cause the operator to grant broader access than intended, potentially resulting in elevated privileges within the Kubernetes cluster.

Affected products

• Everpure Portworx Operator: through 26.3.1

References

• https://support.everpuredata.com/r/security-bulletins/security-bulletins

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