Vulnerability · Published Aug 24, 2026 · Assigned by HashiCorp
CVE-2026-5006Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths
Medium 6.8
In plain English
A medium-severity authorization bypass via user-controlled key in Vault from HashiCorp. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 21% of all known vulnerabilities). Ready-made attack tooling exists: public proof-of-concept code.
Official 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 (as reported)
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| HashiCorp | Vault | 0.11.0 – before 2.0.4 |
| HashiCorp | Vault Enterprise | 0.11.0 – before 2.0.4 |
Weakness: CWE-639 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N