CVEvulnerability

CVE-2025-5999

7.2 HIGH Published 2025-08-01 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Analyzed
Published
2025-08-01
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-266

Description

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22.

Affected configurations

• hashicorp vault (>= 0.10.4 < 1.16.22) • hashicorp vault (>= 0.10.4 < 1.20.0) • hashicorp vault (>= 1.17.0 < 1.18.11) • hashicorp vault (>= 1.19.0 < 1.19.6)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment weakness

References