Skip to content
OpenAdvisories

Description

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
kedacore keda < 2.21.0 —

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.

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 keda No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling k8sgpt 0.4.40-r3 —
Wolfi rolling keda-2.19 +6 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling kserve-agent +3 0.21.0-r7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/kedacore/keda <= 1.5.0 — GHSA-637c-6jxx-4rwm
Go github.com/kedacore/keda all versions — GO-2026-6776
Go github.com/kedacore/keda/v2 < 2.21.0 2.21.0 GHSA-637c-6jxx-4rwm

References