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.
Advisories
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Github GHSA |
GHSA-wv26-88m5-6h59 | External Secrets Operator has Namespace Isolation Bypass in CAProvider ConfigMap Resolution for SecretStore |
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History
Mon, 11 May 2026 20:45:00 +0000
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External-secrets
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| 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. | |
| Title | External Secrets Operator: Namespace Isolation Bypass in CAProvider ConfigMap Resolution for SecretStore | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-285 CWE-668 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-05-11T18:56:34.097Z
Reserved: 2026-04-30T18:49:06.711Z
Link: CVE-2026-42875
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-05-11T20:25:44.143
Modified: 2026-05-11T20:25:44.143
Link: CVE-2026-42875
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-05-11T20:30:16Z
Github GHSA