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GHSA-6H4P-M86H-HHGH

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-08-01 18:31 – Updated: 2025-08-01 21:08

Summary

Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Details

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22.

Severity ?

7.2 (High)


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

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  ],
  "summary": "Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"
}

CVE-2025-5999 (GCVE-0-2025-5999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-01 17:38 – Updated: 2025-08-01 18:08

Summary

Severity ?

7.2 (High)


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

CWE

CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Assigner

HashiCorp

References

URL

Tags

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vau…

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

HashiCorp

Vault

Affected: 0.10.4 , < 1.20.0 (semver)

HashiCorp

Vault Enterprise

Affected: 0.10.4 , < 1.20.0 (semver)

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GHSA-6H4P-M86H-HHGH

CVE-2025-5999 (GCVE-0-2025-5999)

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