CVE-2026-5006

Published: Aug 24, 2026Modified: Aug 28, 2026

6.8

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Exploitability: 1.6 / Impact: 5.2

Source: security@hashicorp.com (Secondary)

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 CWEs

CWE-639

Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key

The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.

References (1)

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-32-vault-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-via-slash-injection-in-templated-policy-paths

Source: security@hashicorp.com

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