CVE-2026-22728 Affecting kots package, versions <1.129.4-r2


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.06% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-KOTS-15363531
  • published27 Feb 2026
  • disclosed26 Feb 2026

Introduced: 26 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-22728  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard kots to version 1.129.4-r2 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kots package and not the kots package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Bitnami Sealed Secrets is vulnerable to a scope-widening attack during the secret rotation (/v1/rotate) flow. The rotation handler derives the sealing scope for the newly encrypted output from untrusted spec.template.metadata.annotations present in the input SealedSecret. By submitting a victim SealedSecret to the rotate endpoint with the annotation sealedsecrets.bitnami.com/cluster-wide=true injected into the template metadata, a remote attacker can obtain a rotated version of the secret that is cluster-wide. This bypasses original "strict" or "namespace-wide" constraints, allowing the attacker to retarget and unseal the secret in any namespace or under any name to recover the plaintext credentials.