CVE-2026-77524

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77524
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-77524.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-77524
Aliases
  • GHSA-637c-6jxx-4rwm
Published
2026-10-14T16:15:15Z
Modified
2026-10-15T02:47:41Z
Severity
  • 9.9 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
KEDA: Privilege escalation from namespace admin to cluster admin via KEDA TriggerAuthentication
Details

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. In version 2.20.2 and earlier, a namespace administrator who can create TriggerAuthentication and ScaledObject resources can set hashiCorpVault.address to a tenant-controlled endpoint and select Kubernetes authentication without an explicit credential. KEDA then uses the operator pod's projected ServiceAccount token and sends it to that endpoint as a Vault login credential. The JWT-shape filter from the prior CVE-2025-68476 remediation accepts the operator token because its subject is a Kubernetes ServiceAccount, so the attacker can obtain the operator's cluster-wide permissions, including broad Secret reads and workload or admission-related operations. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.21.0.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner":  "GitHub_M",
    "cwe_ids":  [
        "CWE-269",
        "CWE-918"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from":  "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/77xxx/CVE-2026-77524.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/kedacore/keda

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/kedacore/keda
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
626ded5d783108bedf647e20bbc83f8e458e02e4
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "introduced":  "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed":  "2.21.0"
        }
    ],
    "source":  "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.1.0
v1.2.0
v1.3.0
v1.4.0
v1.4.1
v1.5.0
v2.*
v2.0.0
v2.0.0-beta
v2.0.0-rc
v2.0.0-rc2
v2.1.0
v2.10.0
v2.11.0
v2.12.0
v2.13.0
v2.14.0
v2.15.0
v2.16.0
v2.17.0
v2.18.0
v2.19.0
v2.2.0
v2.20.0
v2.20.1
v2.3.0
v2.4.0
v2.5.0
v2.6.0
v2.6.1
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.9.0
v2.9.1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-77524.json"