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.
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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-639 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: HashiCorp
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Updated: 2026-08-24T20:32:49.396Z
Reserved: 2026-03-27T13:52:35.219Z
Link: CVE-2026-5006
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-24T21:17:46.147
Modified: 2026-08-24T21:17:46.147
Link: CVE-2026-5006
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Updated: 2026-08-24T21:30:16Z
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