CVE-2026-22728

Medium

Description

Bitnami Sealed Secrets is vulnerable to a scope-widening attack during the secret rotation (/v1/rotate) flow. The rotation handler derives the sealing scope for the newly encrypted output from untrusted spec.template.metadata.annotations present in the input SealedSecret. By submitting a victim SealedSecret to the rotate endpoint with the annotation sealedsecrets.bitnami.com/cluster-wide=true injected into the template metadata, a remote attacker can obtain a rotated version of the secret that is cluster-wide. This bypasses original "strict" or "namespace-wide" constraints, allowing the attacker to retarget and unseal the secret in any namespace or under any name to recover the plaintext credentials.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.9
Exploit probability—
ProductGithub.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets
PublishedFeb 26, 2026
First seenFeb 26, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets0.36.0 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secretsGov < 0.36.00.36.0

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