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        "dateReserved": "2026-01-09T06:54:41.497Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-02-26T00:50:00.863Z",
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                            "value": "<span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">Bitnami </span><b>Sealed Secrets</b><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">&nbsp;is vulnerable to a scope-widening attack during</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">the secret rotation (/v1/rotate) flow. The rotation handler derives the</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">sealing scope for the newly encrypted output from untrusted</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">spec.template.metadata.annotations present in the input SealedSecret.</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">By submitting a victim SealedSecret to the rotate endpoint with the</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">annotation sealedsecrets.bitnami.com/cluster-wide=true injected into the</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">template metadata, a remote attacker can obtain a rotated version of the</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">secret that is cluster-wide. This bypasses original \"strict\" or</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">\"namespace-wide\" constraints, allowing the attacker to retarget and unseal</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">the secret in any namespace or under any name to recover the plaintext</span><br><span style=\"background-color: rgb(241, 242, 244);\">credentials.</span><br>"
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                    "url": "https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets/security/advisories/GHSA-465p-v42x-3fmj"
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