# CVE-2026-3605: Vault KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass Denial-of-Service

> CVE-2026-3605: Vault KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass Denial-of-Service. CVSS 8.1 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-3605
Last updated: 2026-07-15T02:21:01Z

- Published: 2026-04-17 02:44 UTC · Updated: 2026-07-15 02:21 UTC · Assigner: HashiCorp
- CVSS: 8.1 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.38%, 31th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-288

## Description

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.

## Affected vendors and products

- HashiCorp: Vault
- HashiCorp: Vault Enterprise
- Red Hat: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4

## Tracked companies

- [HashiCorp](https://rewindex.com/company/hashicorp.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-3605)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3605)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-05-vault-kvv2-metadata-and-secret-deletion-policy-bypass-denial-of-service/77342](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-05-vault-kvv2-metadata-and-secret-deletion-policy-bypass-denial-of-service/77342)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-3605 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-3605.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-3605 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:05:30.189Z