CVE-2026-15140A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP).
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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.
- CVSS
- 7.7 HIGH (v4.0, CNA)CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-266
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- Everpure
- NVD analysis
- Deferred
- Record last updated
- Sep 9, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 9, 2026
Affected products
Everpure Portworx Operator everpure:portworx_operator (from the name) | through 26.3.1; 26.3.2 + not affected | CNA record |
References
- https://support.everpuredata.com/r/security-bulletins/security-bulletins
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