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Medium severity6.8NVD Advisory· Published Aug 24, 2026· Updated Aug 28, 2026

CVE-2026-5006

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

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  • osv-coords
    pkg:bitnami/vault
    Range: >= 0.11.0, < 2.0.4
  • 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)

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