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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.8

CVE-2026-5006 json

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

published 2026-08-24 2 mo ago modified 2026-10-12 27 d ago also BIT-vault-2026-5006 , EUVD-2026-65122

cvss
6.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 20%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami vault 2.0.4
  • HashiCorp Vault 2.0.4
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.19.20, 1.20.14, 1.21.9, 2.0.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-5006 updated cvss 8.1

Vault: Vault Enterprise: Vault: Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths

  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, rhceph-dev/odf4-cephcsi-rhel9, rhceph-dev/odf4-mcg-cli-rhel9, rhceph-dev/odf4-mcg-rhel9-operator
    affected: workaround, no fix available

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 20% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
OSV 3.1 6.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami vault
>=0.11.0, <2.0.4
2.0.4

Affected products

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

Classification

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

References

Sources

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