GHSA-6h4p-m86h-hhghHighCVSS 7.2

Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published
August 1, 2025
Last Modified
August 1, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2025-5999 →

📋 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.

🎯 Affected products1

  • go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:>= 0.10.4, < 1.20.0

🔗 References (3)