---
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: 0.09609
ssvc:
  exploitation: none
  automatable: 'no'
  technicalImpact: total
  timestamp: '2026-09-09T19:16:18.683035Z'
---

## Overview

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.

## Remediation

Refer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.