Critical 9.9Published Oct 14, 2026

CVE-2026-77524KEDA: Privilege escalation from namespace admin to cluster admin via KEDA TriggerAuthentication

Updated under an hour ago (2026-10-19 07:23 UTC)

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EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.64%, higher than 49% of scored CVEs.

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KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. In version 2.20.2 and earlier, a namespace administrator who can create TriggerAuthentication and ScaledObject resources can set hashiCorpVault.address to a tenant-controlled endpoint and select Kubernetes authentication without an explicit credential. KEDA then uses the operator pod's projected ServiceAccount token and sends it to that endpoint as a Vault login credential. The JWT-shape filter from the prior CVE-2025-68476 remediation accepts the operator token because its subject is a Kubernetes ServiceAccount, so the attacker can obtain the operator's cluster-wide permissions, including broad Secret reads and workload or admission-related operations. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.21.0.

CVSS: 9.9 CRITICAL (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE): CWE-269, CWE-918
Known exploited: Not in CISA's KEV catalog
EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days): 0.64% (percentile 49)
Assigned by: GitHub_M
NVD analysis: Awaiting Analysis
Record last updated: Oct 14, 2026
First seen by InfoSec Signals: Oct 14, 2026

Affected products

Affected products

kedacore keda kedacore:keda (from the name)	before 2.21.0	CNA record

References

https://github.com/kedacore/keda/security/advisories/GHSA-637c-6jxx-4rwmx-refsource-confirm
https://github.com/kedacore/keda/commit/1e21cc798dedd079e696cdb45388eddc5e18365dx-refsource-misc
https://github.com/kedacore/keda/releases/tag/v2.21.0x-refsource-misc

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