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UnratedGO-2026-5487 CVE-2026-3605Published Jun 25, 2026

HashiCorp Vault has a KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass that leads to Denial-of-Service in github.com/hashicorp/vault

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Affected versions

0.10.0 and later (no fix listed)

Details

HashiCorp Vault has a KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass that leads to Denial-of-Service in github.com/hashicorp/vault

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.

References