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.
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Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:15:00 +0000

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Title Privilege Escalation via Portworx Operator during OpenShift Provisioning

Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:00:00 +0000

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Description 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.
Weaknesses CWE-266
References
Metrics cvssV4_0

{'score': 7.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Everpure

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-09T19:19:10.931Z

Reserved: 2026-07-08T17:17:55.388Z

Link: CVE-2026-15140

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-09T19:19:05.588Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-09-09T13:18:37.293

Modified: 2026-09-09T20:17:20.980

Link: CVE-2026-15140

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-09T16:00:17Z

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