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Medium · 6.8 Public exploit CVE-2026-5006 EUVD-2026-65122GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8

Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths

Published Aug 24, 2026 · Updated Aug 26, 2026 · Assigned by HashiCorp

Vendor: HashiCorp Product: Vault Product: Vault Enterprise

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
HashiCorp Vault 0.11.0 – < 2.0.4 2.0.4
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 0.11.0 – < 2.0.4 2.0.4

Public exploits

Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.

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GitHub 1 repository

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