CVE-2026-42875
External Secrets Operator: Namespace Isolation Bypass in CAProvider ConfigMap Resolution for SecretStore
Vexday Risk Score
13Low
SSVC decision (CISA)
Track
No exploitation signal → monitor
CVSS 5.3EPSS 0.2%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei —Metasploit —Patch —
Lifecycle
11 May 2026Published on NVD
Recommendation: Monitor — no exploitation signal at the moment.
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/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N
Affected products
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