CVE-2025-5999 — Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

CVE-2025-5999

Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
HashiCorp / Vault	affected 0.10.4 before 1.20.0
HashiCorp / Vault Enterprise	affected 0.10.4 before 1.20.0

CWE

CWE-266

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vault-root-namespace-operator-may-elevate-token-privileges/76032

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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