{"id":"CVE-2026-15140","title":"A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP)","summary":"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 p…","severity":"high","cvss":7.7,"cvssVector":"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","cwe":["CWE-266"],"vendor":"Everpure","product":"Portworx Operator","affected":["portworx_operator <= 26.3.1"],"published":"2026-09-09","updated":"2026-09-09","sourceUpdated":"2026-09-09T20:17:20.980","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-15140","references":[{"url":"https://support.everpuredata.com/r/security-bulletins/security-bulletins","label":"psirt@purestorage.com"}],"tags":["nvd","cve.org"],"cvssSource":"cna","ingestedAt":"2026-09-09T13:09:45.301Z","epss":0.00207,"epssPercentile":0.11125,"ssvc":{"exploitation":"none","automatable":"no","technicalImpact":"total","timestamp":"2026-09-09T19:16:18.683035Z"},"slug":"CVE-2026-15140","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":42,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":42.4,"likelihood":0,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}