CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-15140

HighCVSS 7.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.21%

11th percentile - higher than 11% of all known CVEs

Summary

A privilege-escalation vulnerability in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Under specific conditions during initial provisioning of a Portworx storage cluster, a user with only limited, namespace-scoped permissions could cause the operator to grant broader access than intended, potentially leading to elevated privileges within the Kubernetes cluster.

Risk Assessment

Risk of unauthorized privilege escalation within the Kubernetes cluster, potentially allowing an attacker to access resources beyond their permissions and compromise cluster integrity.

Recommendation

Update the Portworx Operator to a patched version and restrict user permissions within namespaces to minimize the risk of exploitation.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS