Authenticated file disclosure via unvalidated service-account path
Published Dec 22, 2025 · Updated Dec 22, 2025
Path traversal in KEDA before 2.17.3 and 2.18.0 through 2.18.2 allows remote authenticated users to read files from its pod node. The HashiCorp Vault authentication handler passes spec.hashiCorpVault.credential.serviceAccount directly to os.ReadFile, then sends the returned bytes as a Vault login JWT without validating that they represent a Kubernetes service account token. Creating or modifying a TriggerAuthentication resource and configuring an attacker-controlled Vault endpoint is required, exposing any file readable by the KEDA operator process.
Summary
What happened
Path traversal in KEDA before 2.17.3 and 2.18.0 through 2.18.2 allows remote authenticated users to read files from its pod node. The HashiCorp Vault authentication handler passes spec.hashiCorpVault.credential.serviceAccount directly to os.ReadFile, then sends the returned bytes as a Vault login JWT without validating that they represent a Kubernetes service account token. Creating or modifying a TriggerAuthentication resource and configuring an attacker-controlled Vault endpoint is required, exposing any file readable by the KEDA operator process.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-68476
- Published
- Dec 22, 2025
- Updated
- Dec 22, 2025
- Vendor
- KEDA
- Product
- KEDA
- Classifications
- CWE-863, CWE-22, T1005
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Dec 22, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Dec 22, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=< 2.17.3
- Affected versionversion=>= 2.18.0, < 2.18.3
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