CVE-2026-22728 MEDIUM

CVE-2026-22728: sealed-secrets /v1/rotate can widen sealing scope to cluster-wide via attacker-controlled template annotations

Vendor Bitnami
Product sealed-secrets
Weakness CWE-284
Published February 26, 2026
Last update February 26, 2026

CVSS base score

4.9/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required High
User interaction None
Confidentiality High
Integrity None

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

February 26, 2026 CVE published
February 26, 2026 Record updated