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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.8 Medium

CVE-2026-5006

Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
HashiCorp

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

HashiCorp Vault

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0.11.0 to < 2.0.4affected

HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0.11.0 to < 2.0.4affected

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