CVE-2025-41240

Mounted Kubernetes Secrets under a predictable path located within the web server document root

State: Published
Severity: 10.0 Critical
Published: Jul 24, 2025
Updated: Feb 26, 2026
Reserved: Apr 16, 2025

Description

Three Bitnami Helm charts mount Kubernetes Secrets under a predictable path (/opt/bitnami/*/secrets) that is located within the web server document root. In affected versions, this can lead to unauthenticated access to sensitive credentials via HTTP/S. A remote attacker could retrieve these secrets by accessing specific URLs if the application is exposed externally. The issue affects deployments using the default value of usePasswordFiles=true, which mounts secrets as files into the container filesystem.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	10.0 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H	vmware

Weaknesses

CWE-552 Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

Affected Products

Product	Versions
bitnamicharts/appsmithVMware	21.2.0 through 22.0.4Affected
bitnamicharts/drupalVMware	5.2.0 to before 6.0.19Affected
bitnamicharts/wordpressVMware	24.2.0 to before 25.0.4Affected

References

https://github.com/bitnami/charts/security/advisories/GHSA-wgg9-9qgw-529w

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