CVE-2026-5006

mediumpriority · track · 10EPSS 0.003 · 19 %ileexploit · PoCUS
grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent
Exploitable?
Public exploit
1 exploit · PoC
Likely / severe?
0.28% (19th) EPSS
CVSS 6.8 · medium
Is it mine?
1 products
Check your exposure
Who says so?
1 sources
osv

EPSS · scored 2026-10-22

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.

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cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.8
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.8mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · security@hashicorp.comexploitability 1.6 · impact 5.2
v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Psecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)
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ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS
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weaknesses

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CWE-639US
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exploits (1)

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affected products (1)

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advisories (1)

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  • BIT-vault-2026-5006Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths2026-08-28vendor · osvUS

    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.

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sources

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osvNVDCVE.orgMITRE
published 2026-08-24modified 2026-08-28
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references (1) nvd

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