Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-36540

Critical

Published: 24 July 2024

Published
24 July 2024
Modified
27 June 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0026 49.8th percentile
Risk Priority 20 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-36540 is a critical-severity Insecure Inherited Permissions (CWE-277) vulnerability in External-Secrets External Secrets Operator. Its CVSS base score is 9.8 (Critical).

Operationally, ranked at the 49.8th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Insecure permissions in external-secrets v0.9.16 allows attackers to access sensitive data and escalate privileges by obtaining the service account's token.

CWE(s)
CWE-277

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

external-secrets
external secrets operator
0.9.16

Mitigating Controls

No mitigating controls mapped yet. The per-CVE control annotator has not reached this CVE.

References