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CVE-2025-5999
HIGH · CVSS 7.2
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2025-08-01T18:15:56.257 · Last modified 2026-06-17T09:49:11.063

Summary

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 products

hashicorp — vault

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References

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