CVE-2024-36540

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-36540

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-36540.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2024-36540

Published

2024-07-24T00:00:00Z

Modified

2026-07-08T08:05:31.492338480Z

Severity

9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

Insecure permissions in external-secrets v0.9.16 allows attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges by obtaining the service account's token.

Database specific

{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/36xxx/CVE-2024-36540.json",
    "cna_assigner": "mitre"
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets

Affected ranges

Type

GIT

Repo

https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets

Events

Introduced

3d96be0d53817cde9e1c431b4b51550614e064df

Last affected

3d96be0d53817cde9e1c431b4b51550614e064df

Database specific

{
    "source": "CPE_STRING",
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:external-secrets:external_secrets_operator:0.9.16:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0.9.16"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "0.9.16"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

0.*

0.9.16

v0.*

v0.9.16

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2024-36540.json"