# CVE-2026-5006: Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths

> CVE-2026-5006: Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths. CVSS 6.8 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-5006
Last updated: 2026-10-12T21:10:00Z

- Published: 2026-08-24 20:32 UTC · Updated: 2026-10-12 21:10 UTC · Assigner: HashiCorp
- CVSS: 6.8 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS: 0.28%, 20th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-639

## Description

A vulnerability was identified in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) such that an authenticated attacker may manipulate an identity value referenced by a templated policy path to gain unintended access to Vault paths. An attacker who can control the referenced identity value may include slash ({{/}}) characters that Vault interprets as additional path segments when rendering the policy. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-5006, was fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.4 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.4, 1.21.9, 1.20.14, and 1.19.20.

## Affected vendors and products

- HashiCorp: Vault
- HashiCorp: Vault Enterprise

## Tracked companies

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

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5006)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5006)
- [https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-32-vault-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-via-slash-injection-in-templated-policy-paths](https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-32-vault-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-via-slash-injection-in-templated-policy-paths)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-5006 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-5006.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-5006 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T03:11:38.206Z