CVE-2025-5999

Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

State: Published
Severity: 7.2 High
Published: Aug 1, 2025
Updated: Aug 1, 2025
Reserved: Jun 11, 2025

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.2 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	HashiCorp

Weaknesses

CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Affected Products

Product	Versions
VaultHashiCorp	0.10.4 to before 1.20.0Affected
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp	0.10.4 to before 1.20.0Affectedfrom 1.19.6Not affectedfrom 1.18.11Not affectedfrom 1.16.22Not affected

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vault-root-namespace-operator-may-elevate-token-privileges/76032

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