CVE-2025-55196
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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Description
External Secrets Operator's Missing Namespace Restriction Allows Unauthorized Secret Access in github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go | github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets | >=0.15.0,<0.19.2 | 0.19.2 |
References
- https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/security/advisories/GHSA-fcxq-v2r3-cc8h
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-55196
- https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/pull/5109
- https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/pull/5133
- https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/commit/39cdba5863533007b582dc63dd300839326b2f1d
- https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets/commit/de40e8f4fa9559c1d770bb674589b285da5ef2d1
- https://github.com/external-secrets/external-secrets
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.