CVE-2026-15140: Everpure Portworx Operator

High severity, CVSS 7.7. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A privilege-escalation issue in the Portworx Operator when deployed on Red Hat OpenShift (OCP). Only under specific conditions during the initial provisioning of a Portworx storage cluster, a user holding only limited, namespace-scoped permissions could cause the operator to grant broader access than intended, potentially resulting in elevated privileges within the Kubernetes cluster.

Affected products

• Everpure Portworx Operator: up to and including 26.3.1

Published 2026-09-09. Last modified 2026-09-09.