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CVE-2026-39961

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
Lifecycle PUBLISHED1 preserved revisionFact urn:baitaphish:canonical-cve-fact-revision:v2:528c1734e3c0f3fc34bf15b9608540c4dc60c7091e25bf8e1ec54a9345eec6ae
Known exploited
Not asserted
Disputed
No
Stale source
No
Conflicts
1

Preserved source conflicts

No provider value was silently selected as the winner.

cwe · 2 assertions

{"cweId":"CWE-441","description":"CWE-441: Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0

{"cweId":"CWE-269","description":"CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}

  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Affected products and versions

1 source assertion
{"product":"aiven-operator","vendor":"aiven","versions":[{"status":"affected","version":"< 0.37.0"}]}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5affected
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/affected/0

Provider-owned CVSS observations

1 source assertion
{"metric":{"attackComplexity":"LOW","attackVector":"NETWORK","availabilityImpact":"NONE","baseScore":6.8,"baseSeverity":"MEDIUM","confidentialityImpact":"HIGH","integrityImpact":"NONE","privilegesRequired":"HIGH","scope":"CHANGED","userInteraction":"NONE","vectorString":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N","version":"3.1"},"metric_type":"cvssV3_1"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cvss
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/metrics/0/cvssV3_1

CWE assertions

2 source assertions
{"cweId":"CWE-441","description":"CWE-441: Unintended Proxy or Intermediary ('Confused Deputy')","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/1/descriptions/0
{"cweId":"CWE-269","description":"CWE-269: Improper Privilege Management","lang":"en","type":"CWE"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5cwe
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/problemTypes/0/descriptions/0

Source references

3 source assertions
{"name":"https://github.com/aiven/aiven-operator/commit/032c9ba63257fdd2fddfb7f73f71830e371ff182","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/aiven/aiven-operator/commit/032c9ba63257fdd2fddfb7f73f71830e371ff182"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/references/1
{"name":"https://github.com/aiven/aiven-operator/releases/tag/v0.37.0","tags":["x_refsource_MISC"],"url":"https://github.com/aiven/aiven-operator/releases/tag/v0.37.0"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/references/2
{"name":"https://github.com/aiven/aiven-operator/security/advisories/GHSA-99j8-wv67-4c72","tags":["x_refsource_CONFIRM"],"url":"https://github.com/aiven/aiven-operator/security/advisories/GHSA-99j8-wv67-4c72"}
  • cve_program_cvelist_v5reference
    urn:baitaphish:normalized-source-record:v2:9d34996ea1e6195e94a7f0ed2778e35a8ac83880e8ed269a8cf8f9b21a8d2c93 · sha256:1a60f24c446a3a5a… · /containers/cna/references/0

Attribution and limitations

  • CVE Program CVEList V5: Reproduce the MITRE copyright designation and CVE license in copies. Source →

Provider severity values are preserved separately. Baitaphish does not convert them into a risk rating, infer affected products, or treat EPSS as observed exploitation.

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