CVE-2026-42876

External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Prior to 2.4.1, a user who only has permission to create ExternalSecret resources can cause the operator to create a Secret that Kubernetes will automatically populate with a long-lived token for the specified service account. This effectively allows the user to impersonate any service account in the namespace without needing direct create permissions on TokenRequest or Secrets of that type. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.4.1.

• CWE-285

• https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/commit/4ddd240af7fe88725d9857b9a0c198073502e288
• https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v2.4.1
• https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/security/advisories/GHSA-fq7h-9x26-6j22

Published

May 11, 2026

Last Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Status

Deferred

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