CVE-2026-5006

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.

Published 24 Aug 2026, 21:17 UTC Last modified 24 Aug 2026, 21:17 UTC

6.8

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

SCX

ShellCodeX risk assessment

Planned remediation priority based on exploitation evidence, CVSS conditions and affected-product data.

PriorityEvidenceDecision use

Planned The vulnerable path is reachable over a network. Validate against your asset inventory and vendor advisory.

Attack profile

The conditions required to exploit this vulnerability and its potential impact.

Attack vector Network

Attack complexity High

Privileges required Low

User interaction None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality High

Integrity High

Availability None

Exploitability1.6

Impact5.2

Affected products

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NVD has not published structured affected-product data for this record.

Weakness classification

CWE categories help security teams group the underlying software weakness.

CWECWE-639

Source references

External advisories, patches and technical reports attached to this CVE record.

NVD National Vulnerability Database recordnvd.nist.gov 01 Technical reference security@hashicorp.com