CVE-2026-15140

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.

  • Published Sep 9, 2026
  • CVSS 7.7 high
  • 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-15140 at the National Vulnerability Database