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.
Fix
Microsoft's update · Critical
- Release Notes — azl3 keda 2.14.1-19 on Azure Linux 3.0 · build 2.14.1-23
From the 2026-Oct release note of Microsoft's Security Update Guide, revised 2026-10-29.
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Change history 3
- StatusAwaiting Analysis → PublishedNVD modified 2026-10-20 01:39
- StatusReceived → Awaiting AnalysisNVD modified 2026-10-16 16:00
- First seenCVSS 9.9NVD modified 2026-10-14 17:19
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
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