Authenticated secret disclosure via annotation-controlled rotation scope
Published Feb 26, 2026 · Updated Feb 26, 2026
Improper access control in Bitnami Sealed Secrets 0.35.0 allows remote authenticated users to recover plaintext Kubernetes secrets. The /v1/rotate handler unseals the submitted object, copies spec.template metadata onto the Secret, and lets SecretScope derive the new scope from attacker-controlled annotations. An attacker needs a victim SealedSecret and authenticated permission to call the rotation endpoint; setting the cluster-wide annotation removes name and namespace binding and exposes the recovered credentials.
Summary
What happened
Improper access control in Bitnami Sealed Secrets 0.35.0 allows remote authenticated users to recover plaintext Kubernetes secrets. The /v1/rotate handler unseals the submitted object, copies spec.template metadata onto the Secret, and lets SecretScope derive the new scope from attacker-controlled annotations. An attacker needs a victim SealedSecret and authenticated permission to call the rotation endpoint; setting the cluster-wide annotation removes name and namespace binding and exposes the recovered credentials.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-22728
- Published
- Feb 26, 2026
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Vendor
- Bitnami
- Product
- Sealed Secrets
- Classifications
- CWE-284, T1552.007
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Feb 26, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Feb 26, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=0.35.0 <<0.36.0
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