CVE-2025-5999 (GCVE-0-2025-5999)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-01 17:38
Modified
2025-08-01 18:08
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment
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.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ► | HashiCorp | Vault |
Version: 0.10.4 ≤ |
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