Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise did not consistently apply explicit ACL policy deny rules to request paths that differ only by a trailing slash. This may allow an authenticated user who holds a broader delete permission on system configuration paths to disable a secrets engine, auth method, or audit device that a more specific deny rule was intended to protect. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-93335) is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.2.2 and Vault Enterprise 2.2.2, 1.21.14, and 1.19.25.
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Thu, 12 Nov 2026 22:45:00 +0000

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Description Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise did not consistently apply explicit ACL policy deny rules to request paths that differ only by a trailing slash. This may allow an authenticated user who holds a broader delete permission on system configuration paths to disable a secrets engine, auth method, or audit device that a more specific deny rule was intended to protect. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-93335) is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.2.2 and Vault Enterprise 2.2.2, 1.21.14, and 1.19.25.
Title Vault vulnerable to ACL deny bypass via trailing slash
Weaknesses CWE-647
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

Published: 2026-11-12T22:32:14.454Z

Updated: 2026-11-12T22:32:14.454Z

Reserved: 2026-09-17T17:54:44.624Z

Link: CVE-2026-93335

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