CVE-2026-34984 (GCVE-0-2026-34984)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-14 01:48
Modified
2026-04-14 16:27
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CWE
- CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Summary
External Secrets Operator reads information from a third-party service and automatically injects the values as Kubernetes Secrets. Versions 2.2.0 and below contain a vulnerability in runtime/template/v2/template.go where the v2 template engine removes env and expandenv from Sprig's TxtFuncMap() but leaves the getHostByName function accessible to user-controlled templates. Since ESO executes templates within the controller process, an attacker who can create or update templated ExternalSecret resources can invoke controller-side DNS lookups using secret-derived values. This creates a DNS exfiltration primitive, allowing fetched secret material to be leaked via DNS queries without requiring direct outbound network access from the attacker's workload. The impact is a confidentiality issue, particularly in environments where untrusted or lower-trust users can author templated ExternalSecret resources and the controller has DNS resolution capability. This issue has been fixed in version 2.3.0.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| external-secrets | external-secrets |
Version: < 2.3.0 |
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