CVE-2026-15140

7.7 highEPSS 0.4%

High (7.7). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Only under specific conditions during the initial provisioning of a Portworx storage cluster, a user holding only limited, namespace-scoped permissions could cause the operator to grant broader access than intended, potentially resulting in elevated privileges within the Kubernetes cluster.

Severity

CVSS 4.0

7.7 high

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 28% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-266
Published: 2026-09-09
Modified: 2026-09-09
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://support.everpuredata.com/r/security-bulletins/security-bulletins

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