CVE-2025-5999

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 Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
HashiCorpVault0.10.4 < 1.20.0affected
HashiCorpVault Enterprise0.10.4 < 1.20.0affected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-266: CWE-266: Incorrect Privilege Assignment

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References