{"id":"CVE-2026-5006","title":"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.\n\nAn att…","summary":"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.\n\nAn att…","severity":"medium","cvss":6.8,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N","cwe":["CWE-639"],"published":"2026-08-24","updated":"2026-10-12","sourceUpdated":"2026-10-12T21:10:00.227","source":"NVD","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5006","references":[{"url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-32-vault-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-via-slash-injection-in-templated-policy-paths","label":"security@hashicorp.com"}],"tags":["nvd","exploit-available"],"epss":0.00279,"epssPercentile":0.18823,"exploits":{"github":1,"githubRepos":["https://github.com/tcollins-hashicorp/vault-cve-2026-5006-audit"],"checkedAt":"2026-10-12T22:06:14.845Z"},"exploitAvailable":true,"ingestedAt":"2026-10-12T22:05:40.344Z","slug":"CVE-2026-5006","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\nAn attacker who can control the referenced identity value may include slash ({{/}}) characters that Vault interprets as additional path segments when rendering the policy.\n\nThis 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.\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the linked advisories for vendor-supplied fixes and affected version ranges.","depth":"twilight","depthScore":49,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":37.4,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":12,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}