Fiche vulnérabilité
CVE-2026-34984 : faille moyenne external-secrets external secrets… (CVSS 6.5)
Description
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Versions 2.2.0 and below contain a vulnerability in runtime/template/v2/template.go where the v2 template engine removes env and expandenv from Sprig's TxtFuncMap() but leaves the getHostByName function accessible to user-controlled templates. Since ESO executes templates within the controller process, an attacker who can create or update templated ExternalSecret resources can invoke controller-side DNS lookups using secret-derived values. This creates a DNS exfiltration primitive, allowing fetched secret material to be leaked via DNS queries without requiring direct outbound network access from the attacker's workload. The impact is a confidentiality issue, particularly in environments where untrusted or lower-trust users can author templated ExternalSecret resources and the controller has DNS resolution capability. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.0.
En bref
- Sévérité
- Moyenne (CVSS 6.5)
- Vecteur CVSS
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Exploitation active
- Non signalée par la CISA
- Publication
- 14 avr. 2026
- Dernière mise à jour
- 17 juin 2026
Produits concernés
- external-secrets external secrets operator