# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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- Obtain operator approval before production changes. No commands or remediation were generated. This historical snapshot does not establish current applicability, a released fix or exploitation; no network or model call generated this brief.

Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-40564"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-05-26T14:38:21.937Z"
updatedAt: "2026-06-02T14:12:08.938Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:08.712Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-40564"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-40564.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-40564"
title: "Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator: Server-Side Request Forgery and local file access in Kubernetes Operator"
summary: "Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties, Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability in Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator.\n\nThe FlinkSessionJob jarURI is currently not validated so that it points to user-owned files or addresses.  This lets a user with CR create permissions read files from the operator pod's filesystem and pull content from any backing store reachable through Flink's pluggable filesystem layer and access them through the submitted Flink job. Furthermore for fetching from http/https addresses there is currently no allowlist on the URI scheme, no host check, no IP-range restriction, and no protection against pointing the URI at internal or link-local addresses.This issue affects Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator: from 1.3.0 before 1.15.0.\n\nUsers are recommended to upgrade to version 1.15.0, which fixes the issue."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"1.3.0","status":"affected","versionType":"semver","lessThan":"1.15.0"}],"vendor":"Apache Software Foundation","product":"Apache Flink Kubernetes Operator","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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