External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Starting in version 0.10.0 and prior to version 1.3.2, a bug in the `webhook` generator initialization order incorrectly cleared the label-enforcement flag (`EnforceLabels`) after it was set, resulting in the provider-side check for `external-secrets.io/type=webhook` being skipped (and the operation to succeed while it should have failed with `secret does not contain needed label 'external-secrets.io/type: webhook'. Update secret label to use it with webhook`. Version 1.3.2 contains a patch.
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GHSA-q7hv-xx6h-q2x8 | External Secrets Operator: label enforcement bypass in webhook generator enables secret exfiltration |
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Tue, 06 Oct 2026 15:45:00 +0000
| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Starting in version 0.10.0 and prior to version 1.3.2, a bug in the `webhook` generator initialization order incorrectly cleared the label-enforcement flag (`EnforceLabels`) after it was set, resulting in the provider-side check for `external-secrets.io/type=webhook` being skipped (and the operation to succeed while it should have failed with `secret does not contain needed label 'external-secrets.io/type: webhook'. Update secret label to use it with webhook`. Version 1.3.2 contains a patch. | |
| Title | External Secrets Operator: label enforcement bypass in webhook generator enables secret exfiltration | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-696 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-06T15:31:56.088Z
Reserved: 2026-02-12T17:10:53.415Z
Link: CVE-2026-26287
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-10-06T16:17:07.180
Modified: 2026-10-06T16:17:07.180
Link: CVE-2026-26287
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Weaknesses
Github GHSA