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CVE-2025-5999

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.

Severity
High 7.2
Published
1 Aug 2025
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
1 Nov 2026
Fixed in
1.16.22, 1.18.11, 1.19.6, 1.20.0
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
HashiCorp VaultServers and applications · cpe:a:hashicorp:vault
  • From 0.10.4 before 1.16.22
  • From 0.10.4 before 1.20.0
  • From 1.17.0 before 1.18.11
  • From 1.19.0 before 1.19.6

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5999
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5999