CVE-2025-62159

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El proveedor recuperaba previamente secretos de Kubernetes directamente, sin validar el contexto del namespace o el tipo de almac\u00e9n de secretos. Esto permit\u00eda el acceso no autorizado a secretos entre namespaces, violando los l\u00edmites de seguridad y exponiendo potencialmente credenciales sensibles. En la versi\u00f3n 0.20.0, el c\u00f3digo del proveedor fue actualizado para usar la utilidad 'resolvers.SecretKeyRef', que aplica la validaci\u00f3n del namespace y solo permite el acceso entre namespaces para tipos 'ClusterSecretStore'. Esto asegura que los secretos solo se recuperen del namespace correcto, mitigando el riesgo de acceso no autorizado. Todos los usuarios deber\u00edan actualizar a la \u00faltima versi\u00f3n que contiene esta correcci\u00f3n. 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