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High· 7.5GHSA-88v5-9hxc-f85r CVE-2026-5807CWE-770Published Apr 17, 2026

HashiCorp Vault Vulnerable to Denial-of-Service via Unauthenticated Root Token Generation/Rekey Operations

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Details

Vault is vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition where an unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly initiate or cancel root token generation or rekey operations, occupying the single in-progress operation slot. This prevents legitimate operators from completing these workflows. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-5807, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.0 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.0.

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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