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High· 7.2GHSA-6h4p-m86h-hhgh CVE-2025-5999CWE-266Published Aug 1, 2025

Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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Affected versions

0.10.4 → fixed in 1.20.0

Details

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

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