CVE-2026-5006: Hashicorp Vault

Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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

• Hashicorp Vault: from 0.11.0, before 2.0.4 (fixed in 2.0.4)
• Hashicorp Vault Enterprise: from 0.11.0, before 2.0.4 (fixed in 2.0.4)

Published 2026-08-24. Last modified 2026-08-28.