CVE-2024-36540 is a critical vulnerability affecting external-secrets v0.9.16, allowing attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges due to insecure permissions. With a CVSS score of 9.8, it presents a severe risk as it can be exploited remotely with low complexity, leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no public exploit code or active exploitation has been observed, and community discussion is minimal, its high FAUCET Risk Score of 77/100 indicates significant potential impact. Organizations using affected versions should prioritize patching to mitigate this critical threat.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
0.9.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:external-secrets:external_secrets_operator:0.9.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.