CVEvulnerability

CVE-2026-5006

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2026-08-24 Modified 2026-10-12 Official page ↗
Status
Awaiting Analysis
Published
2026-08-24
Last modified
2026-10-12
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-639

Description

A vulnerability was identified in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) such that an authenticated attacker may manipulate an identity value referenced by a templated policy path to gain unintended access to Vault paths. An attacker who can control the referenced identity value may include slash ({{/}}) characters that Vault interprets as additional path segments when rendering the policy. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-5006, was fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.4 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.4, 1.21.9, 1.20.14, and 1.19.20.

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-639 Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key weakness

References