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Fencer Vulns
high 8.2

CVE-2025-68476 json

KEDA has Arbitrary File Read via Insufficient Path Validation in HashiCorp Vault Service Account Credential

published 2025-12-22 10 mo ago modified 2026-09-25 44 d ago also GHSA-c4p6-qg4m-9jmr , GO-2025-4257 , EUVD-2025-204753

cvss
8.2
version 4.0, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. Prior to versions 2.17.3 and 2.18.3, an Arbitrary File Read vulnerability has been identified in KEDA, potentially affecting any KEDA resource that uses TriggerAuthentication to configure HashiCorp Vault authentication. The vulnerability stems from an incorrect or insufficient path validation when loading the Service Account Token specified in spec.hashiCorpVault.credential.serviceAccount. An attacker with permissions to create or modify a TriggerAuthentication resource can exfiltrate the content of any file from the node's filesystem (where the KEDA pod resides) by directing the file's content to a server under their control, as part of the Vault authentication request. The potential impact includes the exfiltration of sensitive system information, such as secrets, keys, or the content of files like /etc/passwd. This issue has been patched in versions 2.17.3 and 2.18.3.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/kedacore/keda/v2 2.17.3, 2.18.3
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 15.6 0.0.20251230T014957-150000.1.134.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:0037-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Leap 16.0 0.0.20260723T184607-160000.1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:21483-1

  • keda Azure Linux 3.0 2.14.1-9

azure linux advisories AZL-72868

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-68476 updated cvss 7.7

github.com/kedacore/keda: KEDA: Arbitrary file read vulnerability in Vault authentication

  • Red Hat Deployment Validation Operator dvo/deployment-validation-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-receiver-rhel9, openshift-serverless-1/kn-ekb-dispatcher-rhel9
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Custom Metric Autoscaler operator for Red Hat Openshift 2.18 custom-metrics-autoscaler 1770071646, custom-metrics-autoscaler 1770071697, custom-metrics-autoscaler 1770072020, custom-metrics-autoscaler 1770072436
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2368
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 rhoai 1770055872, rhoai 1770056184, rhoai 1770624309
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:2106
  • Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai 1770754585, rhoai 1770754605, rhoai 1770754646, rhoai 1771378291
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2026:3713
  • Red Hat Custom Metric Autoscaler operator for Red Hat Openshift 2.18 custom-metrics-autoscaler 1770076097 Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) rhoai/odh-model-registry-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift AI 2.25 rhoai 1770053626, rhoai 1770053627, rhoai 1770053694, rhoai 1770053703, rhoai 1770053721, rhoai 1770053723, +98 more Red Hat OpenShift AI 3.3 rhoai 1769162595, rhoai 1769436305, rhoai 1769519975, rhoai 1770277795, rhoai 1770735854, rhoai 1770788873, +68 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9, odf4/odf-cli-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator
    not affected: vulnerable code not in execute path

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
10 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.63% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 8.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 4.0 8.2 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/kedacore/keda/v2
>=2.18.0, <2.18.3
<2.17.3
2.18.3
2.17.3
go github.com/kedacore/keda
all versions
 no fix listed

Affected products

  • kedacore keda

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

References

Sources

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