Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 24, 2026

CVE-2026-5006

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.

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Affected products

Hashicorp/Vaultllm-fuzzy
Range: before 2.0.4 (Community), before 2.0.4 (Enterprise), before 1.21.9 (Enterprise), before 1.20.14 (Enterprise), before 1.19.20 (Enterprise)
Hashicorp/Vault Communityllm-fuzzy
Range: <2.0.4
Hashicorp/Vault Enterprisellm-fuzzy
Range: <2.0.4, <1.21.9, <1.20.14, <1.19.20

Patches

Vulnerability mechanics

References

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

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