CVE-2026-5006

Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths

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

HashiCorp · Vault · Vault Enterprise

CVSS v3.1 HASHICORP

6.8 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS

0.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 19th percentile

Published

2026-08-24

Updated

2026-08-26

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• M4xSec/My-Exploits1★ · 2026-08-31

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

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