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.
History

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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First Time appeared Hashicorp
Hashicorp vault
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Vendors & Products Hashicorp
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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.
Title Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths
Weaknesses CWE-639
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.8, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

Published: 2026-08-24T20:32:49.396Z

Updated: 2026-08-25T17:43:25.126Z

Reserved: 2026-03-27T13:52:35.219Z

Link: CVE-2026-5006

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-08-25T17:39:19.624Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-24T21:17:46.147

Modified: 2026-08-25T18:17:57.217

Link: CVE-2026-5006

cve-icon Redhat

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