CVE-2026-15140 PUBLISHED

Assigner: Everpure
Reserved: 08.07.2026 Published: 09.09.2026 Updated: 09.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 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
CVSS Score: 7.7

Product Status

Vendor Everpure
Product Portworx Operator
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0 to 26.3.1 (incl.)
  • Version 26.3.2 + is unaffected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-266 Incorrect privilege assignment CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-233 Privilege Escalation