CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-39961
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-04-09
- Last modified
- 2026-10-26
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-269, CWE-441
Description
Aiven Operator allows you to provision and manage Aiven Services from your Kubernetes cluster. From 0.31.0 to before 0.37.0, a developer with create permission on ClickhouseUser CRDs in their own namespace can exfiltrate secrets from any other namespace — production database credentials, API keys, service tokens — with a single kubectl apply. The operator reads the victim's secret using its ClusterRole and writes the password into a new secret in the attacker's namespace. The operator acts as a confused deputy: its ServiceAccount has cluster-wide secret read/write (aiven-operator-role ClusterRole), and it trusts user-supplied namespace values in spec.connInfoSecretSource.namespace without validation. No admission webhook enforces this boundary — the ServiceUser webhook returns nil, and no ClickhouseUser webhook exists. This vulnerability is fixed in 0.37.0.
Affected configurations
• aiven aiven operator (>= 0.31.0 < 0.37.0)