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GO-2026-5377

ExternalSecrets vulnerable to privilege escalation with secret overwriting in github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/apis

Details

ExternalSecrets vulnerable to privilege escalation with secret overwriting in github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/apis.

NOTE: The source advisory for this report contains additional versions that could not be automatically mapped to standard Go module versions.

(If this is causing false-positive reports from vulnerability scanners, please suggest an edit to the report.)

The additional affected modules and versions are: github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/apis from v0.1.0 before v2.4.1.

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Affected packages

Go / github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/apis

Introduced in: 0

No fixed version published yet for github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/apis (go modules). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.

References

https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/security/advisories/GHSA-fq7h-9x26-6j22 [ADVISORY]
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-42876 [ADVISORY]
https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/commit/4ddd240af7fe88725d9857b9a0c198073502e288 [WEB]
https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/releases/tag/v2.4.1 [WEB]