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ghsa-6h4p-m86h-hhgh

Vulnerability from github

Published

2025-08-01 18:31

Modified

2025-08-01 21:08

Severity ?

7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

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.

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    "nvd_published_at": "2025-08-01T18:15:56Z",
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  },
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  "id": "GHSA-6h4p-m86h-hhgh",
  "modified": "2025-08-01T21:08:01Z",
  "published": "2025-08-01T18:31:19Z",
  "references": [
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5999"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vault-root-namespace-operator-may-elevate-token-privileges/76032"
    },
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    }
  ],
  "summary": "Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability"
}

cve-2025-5999

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2025-08-01 17:38

Modified

2025-08-01 18:08

Severity ?

7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Summary

Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

References

▼	URL	Tags
	https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vault-root-namespace-operator-may-elevate-token-privileges/76032

Impacted products

▼	Vendor	Product
	HashiCorp	Vault
	HashiCorp	Vault Enterprise

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