{"schema_version":1,"title":"External Secrets Operator vulnerabilities","summary":"Junglewise Threat Intelligence has tracked 3 vulnerabilities in External Secrets Operator: 0 in the last 7 days and 0 in the last 90 days, 0 of them critical and 0 exploited in the wild. 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