CVE-2026-5006 (GCVE-0-2026-5006)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-24 20:32 – Updated: 2026-08-26 03:56
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths
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.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-25 00:00 UTC
CWE
- CWE-639 - Authorization Bypass Through User-Controlled Key
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
2 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HashiCorp | Vault |
Affected:
0.11.0 , < 2.0.4
(semver)
|
guessed | |
| HashiCorp | Vault Enterprise |
Affected:
0.11.0 , < 2.0.4
(semver)
|
guessed |
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