A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift…
Priority LOW 36CWE-266Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-266.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00351 28th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Portworx Operator (Everpure): 26.3.2 +
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Portworx Operator (Everpure) Fixed in 26.3.2 +
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-15140
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-q9g8-x2gv-frw5
More Everpure vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-05653 A flaw exists in FlashArray Purity where insufficient filtering of certain data paths… CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-05652 Authorization bypass in Everpure FlashArray CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
Sources
- CVE-2026-15140 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-15140 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-q9g8-x2gv-frw5 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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