CVE-2026-5006

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.

CVSS 3.1

6.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 20% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-639

Published

2026-08-24

Modified

2026-10-12

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

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

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