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Medium · 4.9 CVE-2026-22728 BIT-sealed-secrets-2026-22728EUVD-2026-8795GHSA-465p-v42x-3fmjGO-2026-4565

sealed-secrets /v1/rotate can widen sealing scope to cluster-wide via attacker-controlled template annotations

Published Feb 26, 2026 · Updated Feb 26, 2026 · Assigned by vmware

Description

Bitnami Sealed Secrets is vulnerable to a scope-widening attack during
the secret rotation (/v1/rotate) flow. The rotation handler derives the
sealing scope for the newly encrypted output from untrusted
spec.template.metadata.annotations present in the input SealedSecret.
By submitting a victim SealedSecret to the rotate endpoint with the
annotation sealedsecrets.bitnami.com/cluster-wide=true injected into the
template metadata, a remote attacker can obtain a rotated version of the
secret that is cluster-wide. This bypasses original "strict" or
"namespace-wide" constraints, allowing the attacker to retarget and unseal
the secret in any namespace or under any name to recover the plaintext
credentials.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Bitnami sealed-secrets 0.35.0 – < <0.36.0 <0.36.0

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Leap 16.0 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1
openSUSE Leap 15.6 govulncheck-vulndb 0.0.20260317T205859-150000.1.152.1 SUSE-SU-2026:1042-1

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling kots 1.129.4-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets < 0.36.0 0.36.0 GHSA-465p-v42x-3fmj

Advisories 2

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