hashicorp/vault · Security
Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-6h4p-m86h-hhgh
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-5999
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment