CVE-2026-5006 — Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths

Description (CNA)

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.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
HashiCorp / Vault	affected 0.11.0 before 2.0.4
HashiCorp / Vault Enterprise	affected 0.11.0 before 2.0.4

CWE

CWE-639

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-32-vault-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-via-slash-injection-in-templated-policy-paths

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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