CVE-2025-68476
HighCVSS 8.2Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk44th percentile - higher than 44% of all known CVEs
Summary
KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. Prior to versions 2.17.3 and 2.18.3, an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability was identified in KEDA, potentially affecting any KEDA resource that uses TriggerAuthentication to configure HashiCorp Vault authentication. It stems from incorrect or insufficient path validation when loading the Service Account Token specified in spec.hashiCorpVault.credential.serviceAccount.
Risk Assessment
An attacker with permissions to create or modify a TriggerAuthentication resource can exfiltrate the content of any file from the node's filesystem, including secrets, keys, or /etc/passwd. This may lead to disclosure of critical system information.
Recommendation
Update KEDA to version 2.17.3 or 2.18.3 (or later). Restrict permissions to create and modify TriggerAuthentication resources.
Other vulnerabilities in KEDA
See all- CVE-2026-77524Critical
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, allowing the attacker to obtain the operator's cluster-wide permissions, including broad Secret reads and workload or admission-related operations.
- CVE-2026-53572Medium
KEDA prior to 2.20.0 has a vulnerability in constructing libpq-style connection strings from tenant-controlled values (host, port, userName, dbName, sslmode, password). escapePostgreConnectionParameter() only quotes values containing a literal space, so tabs, newlines, carriage returns, form feeds, vertical tabs, quotes, and backslashes can create additional key-value tokens when pgx parses the string. An attacker able to create or modify a TriggerAuthentication or ScaledObject can inject host or sslmode parameters, redirect the database connection to an attacker-controlled server, expose credentials, or disable intended TLS protection.
Original NVD description (English source)
KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. Prior to versions 2.17.3 and 2.18.3, an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability has been identified in KEDA, potentially affecting any KEDA resource that uses TriggerAuthentication to configure HashiCorp Vault authentication. The vulnerability stems from an incorrect or insufficient path validation when loading the Service Account Token specified in spec.hashiCorpVault.credential.serviceAccount. An attacker with permissions to create or modify a TriggerAuthentication resource can exfiltrate the content of any file from the node's filesystem (where the KEDA pod resides) by directing the file's content to a server under their control, as part of the Vault authentication request. The potential impact includes the exfiltration of sensitive system information, such as secrets, keys, or the content of files like /etc/passwd. This issue has been patched in versions 2.17.3 and 2.18.3.
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