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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2025-08-05 08:52

Modified

2026-09-08 08:34

Summary

Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

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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  "id": "BIT-vault-2025-5999",
  "modified": "2026-09-08T08:34:36.952Z",
  "published": "2025-08-05T08:52:54.433Z",
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CVE-2025-5999 (GCVE-0-2025-5999)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-08-01 17:38 – Updated: 2025-08-01 18:08

Title

Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

Summary

Severity

7.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-08-01 18:08 UTC

CWE

CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Assigner

HashiCorp CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 70/100 over 41 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vau…

Impacted products

2 products

Vendor	Product	Version
HashiCorp	Vault	Affected: 0.10.4 , < 1.20.0 (semver)
HashiCorp	Vault Enterprise	Affected: 0.10.4 , < 1.20.0 (semver)

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