6.8mediumMedium
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.
What the metrics mean
- It is reachable over a network, without needing local access.
- For an attacker who can reach it, exploitation depends on conditions outside the attacker's control.
- To exploit it, an ordinary user account is needed.
- Beyond that, no action by a user is required.
Scoring
- CVSS
- 6.8 (v3.1)
- Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N- Weakness
- CWE-639
- Assigned by
- security@hashicorp.com
Dates
- Published
- 2026-08-24
- Last modified
- 2026-08-28
- Sources
- NVD