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fkie_cve-2026-77524

2026-10-17T05:59:54.142898+00:00

KEDA is a Kubernetes-based Event Driven Autoscaling component. In version 2.20.2 and earlier, a namespace administrator who can create TriggerAuthentication and ScaledObject resources can set hashiCorpVault.address to a tenant-controlled endpoint and select Kubernetes authentication without an explicit credential. KEDA then uses the operator pod's projected ServiceAccount token and sends it to that endpoint as a Vault login credential. The JWT-shape filter from the prior CVE-2025-68476 remediation accepts the operator token because its subject is a Kubernetes ServiceAccount, so the attacker can obtain the operator's cluster-wide permissions, including broad Secret reads and workload or admission-related operations. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.21.0.

GHSA-637c-6jxx-4rwm — KEDA: Privilege escalation from namespace admin to cluster admin via KEDA TriggerAuthentication

2026-10-17T05:59:54.142962+00:00

Affected: Go: github.com/kedacore/keda, Go: github.com/kedacore/keda/v2

## Summary

A namespace admin who creates a `TriggerAuthentication` and a `ScaledObject` in their own namespace can make the KEDA operator send its own ServiceAccount token to a tenant-controlled URL. That token holds `["*"]/["*"] get` cluster-wide, so it reads every Secret in every namespace, plus `batch/jobs` and `horizontalpodautoscalers` create/delete cluster-wide, `*/scale` update on any workload, `validatingwebhookconfigurations` update (rewrite or disable cluster admission), and `apiservices` update (hijack aggregated API routing). This is effectively privilege escalation from namespace admin to cluster admin in real environments: a cluster-wide Secret read alone is enough to find a token for a more privileged ServiceAccount, and the cluster-wide `batch/jobs` create lets the attacker run a workload in any namespace whose Pod Security Admission level permits it (or that is PSA-exempt, such as `kube-system` , `kyverno`) to reach the node filesystem and a control-plane kubeconfig.

This is an incomplete fix of CVE-2025-68476: its content filter only requires the loaded file to be a JWT whose subject begins with `system:serviceaccount:`, which the operator's own projected token satisfies by construction. The destination field `hashiCorpVault.address` is unvalidated.

Finder credits: Artem Cherezov @cherez0ff, with Claude Opus 4.8

## Verified live

kind v1.31.2, kedacore/keda v2.20.0 (latest at the time of audit, ) installed from the unmo…

msrc_CVE-2026-77524 — KEDA: Privilege escalation from namespace admin to cluster admin via KEDA TriggerAuthentication

2026-10-17T05:59:54.143043+00:00

msrc_CVE-2026-77524