CVE-2026-3605 (GCVE-0-2026-3605)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-04-17 02:44
Modified
2026-04-17 17:57
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Summary
An authenticated user with access to a kvv2 path through a policy containing a glob may be able to delete secrets they were not authorized to read or write, resulting in denial-of-service. This vulnerability did not allow a malicious user to delete secrets across namespaces, nor read any secret data. Fxed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.0 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |||||||
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| HashiCorp | Vault |
Version: 0.10.0 ≤ |
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Sightings
| Author | Source | Type | Date |
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Nomenclature
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