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| Aug 2025 | 9 | 1 |
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Latest advisories
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High max 8.0WID-SEC-2026-3803 4 CVEs
Hashicorp Vault: Mehrere Schwachstellen
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Hashicorp Vault ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen oder seine Privilegien zu erweitern.
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Medium max 6.8WID-SEC-2026-2993 1 CVE
Hashicorp Vault: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Umgehen von Sicherheitsvorkehrungen
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Hashicorp Vault ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
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High max 9.6WID-SEC-2026-2945 1 CVE
Hashicorp Vault Secrets Operator: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Privilegieneskalation
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Hashicorp Vault Secrets Operator ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen und Daten offenzulegen oder zu manipulieren.
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High max 8.2WID-SEC-2026-2729 2 CVEs
Hashicorp Vault und Vault Enterprise: Mehrere Schwachstellen
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Hashicorp Vault und Vault Enterpriseausnutzen, um Informationen offenzulegen, Autorisierungsmechanismen zu umgehen und Daten zu manipulieren.
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Low max 4.4WID-SEC-2026-2167 1 CVE
Hashicorp Vault: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Umgehen von Sicherheitsvorkehrungen
Ein entfernter, authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Hashicorp Vault ausnutzen, um Sicherheitsvorkehrungen zu umgehen.
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High 7.2
Vault ACL Policy Evaluation May Allow Bypass of Deny Restrictions
Vault and Vault Enterprise did not consistently evaluate ACL policies against the canonical form of resource and policy names. This may allow an authenticated user with delegated permissions to bypass an explicit deny restriction and access a protected resour…
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High 8.0
Vault Vulnerable to Arbitrary Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Entries Restored From Raft Snapshots
Vault and Vault Enterprise did not consistently verify that stored plugin catalog entries reference binaries within the configured plugin directory. When Vault uses Shamir seals and has an external plugin directory configured, a privileged operator able to re…
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Medium 5.9
Vault PKI ACME Issues Certificate With Unvalidated SANs
Vault's PKI secrets engine ACME server did not restrict certificate identities that ACME challenges do not validate when issuing certificates under the default directory policy. This may allow an ACME client to obtain a certificate containing unverified ident…
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Medium 6.8CVE-2026-5006 Public exploit
Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths
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 t…
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Medium 4.3
Vault vulnerable to LIST authorization bypass via trailing-slash strip
Vault’s ACL policy engine did not consistently enforce a wildcard (glob) deny rule against LIST requests made with a trailing slash on the denied path. This may allow a token holding a broader allow rule alongside a narrower wildcard deny rule to enumerate th…
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Medium 4.4
Audit Log Plugin Directory Guard Bypass via Legacy path Option
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise prior to 2.0.1 audit device validation logic did not consistently apply plugin directory protections when the legacy file audit path option was used. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-5051) is fixed in 2.0.1, 1.21.6, 1.20.11, a…
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High 7.5
Vault Vulnerable to Denial-of-Service via Unauthenticated Root Token Generation/Rekey Operations
Vault is vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition where an unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly initiate or cancel root token generation or rekey operations, occupying the single in-progress operation slot. This prevents legitimate operators from comple…
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High 7.5
Vault Token Leaked to Backends via Authorization: Bearer Passthrough Header
If a Vault auth mount is configured to pass through the "Authorization" header, and the "Authorization" header is used to authenticate to Vault, Vault forwarded the Vault token to the auth plugin backend. Fixed in 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.
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Medium 5.3
Vault Vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in ACME Challenge Validation via Attacker-Controlled DNS
Vault’s PKI engine’s ACME validation did not reject local targets when issuing http-01 and tls-alpn-01 challenges. This may lead to these requests being sent to local network targets, potentially leading to information disclosure. Fixed in Vault Community Edi…
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High 8.1
Vault KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass Denial-of-Service
An authenticated user with access to a kvv2 path through a policy containing a glob may be able to delete secrets they were not authorized to read or write, resulting in denial-of-service. This vulnerability did not allow a malicious user to delete secrets ac…
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High 7.5
Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service Due to Rate Limit Regression
Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service when processing JSON payloads. This occurs due to a regression from a previous fix for [+HCSEC-2025-24+|https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-24-vault-denial-of-s…
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High 8.1
Vault AWS auth method bypass due to AWS client cache
Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass if the role of the configured bound_principal_iam is the same across AWS accounts, or uses a wildcard. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-11621, is fixed in Vault Com…
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High 7.5
Vault unauthenticated denial of service through complex json payload
A malicious user may submit a specially-crafted complex payload that otherwise meets the default request size limit which results in excessive memory and CPU consumption of Vault. This may lead to a timeout in Vault’s auditing subroutine, potentially resultin…
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Medium 6.5
Vault LDAP MFA Enforcement Bypass When Using Username As Alias
Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) ldap auth method may not have correctly enforced MFA if username_as_alias was set to true and a user had multiple CNs that are equal but with leading or trailing spaces. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.2 and Vault …
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Medium 5.7
Vault Login MFA Bypass of Rate Limiting and TOTP Code Reuse
Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) login MFA rate limits could be bypassed and TOTP tokens could be reused. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.
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Low 3.7
Timing Side-Channel in Vault’s Userpass Auth Method
A timing side channel in Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) userpass auth method allowed an attacker to distinguish between existing and non-existing users, and potentially enumerate valid usernames for Vault’s Userpass auth method. Fixed in Vault Communi…
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Medium 5.3
Vault Userpass and LDAP User Lockout Bypass
Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) user lockout feature could be bypassed for Userpass and LDAP authentication methods. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.
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Medium 6.8
Vault Certificate Auth Method Did Not Validate Common Name For Non-CA Certificates
Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as [+trusted certificate+|https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs/auth/cert#certificate]. In this …
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Medium 6.5
Vault TOTP Secrets Engine Code Reuse
Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) TOTP Secrets Engine code validation endpoint is susceptible to code reuse within its validity period. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.
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Critical 9.1
Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Abuse
A privileged Vault operator within the root namespace with write permission to {{sys/audit}} may obtain code execution on the underlying host if a plugin directory is set in Vault’s configuration. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1…
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High 7.2
Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges
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.…
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Low 3.1
Vault Vulnerable to Recovery Key Cancellation Denial of Service
Vault Community and Vault Enterprise rekey and recovery key operations can lead to a denial of service due to uncontrolled cancellation by a Vault operator. This vulnerability (CVE-2025-4656) has been remediated in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Ent…
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Medium 6.6
Vault’s Azure Authentication Method bound_location Restriction Could be Bypassed on Login
Vault Community, Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) Azure Auth method did not correctly validate the claims in the Azure-issued token, resulting in the potential bypass of the bound_locations parameter on login. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.19.1 and Vault Enter…
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Medium 4.5
Vault May Include Sensitive Data in Error Logs When Using the KV v2 Plugin
Vault Community and Vault Enterprise Key/Value (kv) Version 2 plugin may unintentionally expose sensitive information in server and audit logs when users submit malformed payloads during secret creation or update operations via the Vault REST API. This vulner…
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High 7.5
Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Processing Raft Join Requests
Vault Community and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) clusters using Vault’s Integrated Storage backend are vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack through memory exhaustion through a Raft cluster join API endpoint . An attacker may send a large volume of req…
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High 7.2
Vault Operators in Root Namespace May Elevate Their Privileges
A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.18.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.0, 1.17.7, 1.16.11, an…
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High 7.5
Vault SSH Secrets Engine Configuration Did Not Restrict Valid Principals By Default
Vault’s SSH secrets engine did not require the valid_principals list to contain a value by default. If the valid_principals and default_user fields of the SSH secrets engine configuration are not set, an SSH certificate requested by an authorized user to Vaul…
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Medium 6.2
Vault Leaks AppRole Client Tokens And Accessor in Audit Log
Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise experienced a regression where functionality that HMAC’d sensitive headers in the configured audit device, specifically client tokens and token accessors, was removed. This resulted in the plaintext values of clien…
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High 7.5
Vault Vulnerable to Denial of Service When Setting a Proxy Protocol Behavior
Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly handle requests originating from unauthorized IP addresses when the TCP listener option, proxy_protocol_behavior, was set to deny_unauthorized. When receiving a request from a source IP address that was not listed i…
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Low 2.6
Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims
Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly validate the JSON Web Token (JWT) role-bound audience claim when using the Vault JWT auth method. This may have resulted in Vault validating a JWT the audience and role-bound claims do not match, allowing an invalid…
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Medium 6.4
Vault TLS Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate OCSP Responses
Vault and Vault Enterprise TLS certificates auth method did not correctly validate OCSP responses when one or more OCSP sources were configured. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-2660, affects Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.14.0 and above, and is fixed in Vault 1.16…
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High 8.1
Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates
Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate t…
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Medium 4.5
Vault May Expose Sensitive Information When Configuring An Audit Log Device
Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) may expose sensitive information when enabling an audit device which specifies the `log_raw` option, which may log sensitive information to other audit devices, regardless of whether they are configured to use `log_raw`.
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High 7.5
Vault May be Vulnerable to a Denial of Service Through Memory Exhaustion When Handling Large HTTP Requests
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memor…
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Medium 5.9
Vault Requests Triggering Policy Checks May Lead To Unbounded Memory Consumption
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise inbound client requests triggering a policy check can lead to an unbounded consumption of memory. A large number of these requests may lead to denial-of-service. Fixed in Vault 1.15.2, 1.14.6, and 1.13.10.
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High 7.6
Vault's Google Cloud Secrets Engine Removed Existing IAM Conditions When Creating / Updating Rolesets
The Vault and Vault Enterprise ("Vault") Google Cloud secrets engine did not preserve existing Google Cloud IAM Conditions upon creating or updating rolesets. Fixed in Vault 1.13.0.
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Medium 6.8
Vault's Transit Secrets Engine Allowed Nonce Specified without Convergent Encryption
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise transit secrets engine allowed authorized users to specify arbitrary nonces, even with convergent encryption disabled. The encrypt endpoint, in combination with an offline attack, could be used to decrypt arbitrary ciphert…
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Medium 5.3
Vault's LDAP Auth Method Allows for User Enumeration
HashiCorp's Vault and Vault Enterprise are vulnerable to user enumeration when using the LDAP auth method. An attacker may submit requests of existent and non-existent LDAP users and observe the response from Vault to check if the account is valid on the LDAP…
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Medium 4.3
Vault’s KV Diff Viewer Allowed for HTML Injection
Vault and Vault Enterprise's (Vault) key-value v2 (kv-v2) diff viewer allowed HTML injection into the Vault web UI through key values. This vulnerability, CVE-2023-2121, is fixed in Vault 1.14.0, 1.13.3, 1.12.7, and 1.11.11.
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Medium 6.5
Vault Vulnerable to SQL Injection When Configuring the Microsoft SQL Database Storage Backend
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.8.0 through 1.13.1 are vulnerable to an SQL injection attack when configuring the Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Database Storage Backend. When configuring the MSSQL plugin through the local, certain parameters are not s…