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CVE-2026-89322

Vault ACL Policy Evaluation May Allow Bypass of Deny Restrictions

State
Published
Severity
7.2 High
Published
Oct 7, 2026
Updated
Oct 9, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise did not consistently evaluate ACL policies against the canonical form of resource and policy names. This may allow an authenticated user with delegated permissions to bypass an explicit deny restriction and access a protected resource or assign a denied policy, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-89322) is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.1.2, and Vault Enterprise 2.1.2, 1.21.12, 1.20.17, and 1.19.23.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.2 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HHashiCorp

Weaknesses

  • CWE-178 Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity

Affected Products

ProductVersions
VaultHashiCorp
  • 0.0.1 to before 2.1.2Affected
Vault EnterpriseHashiCorp
  • 0.0.1 to before 2.1.2Affectedfrom 1.21.12Not affectedfrom 1.20.17Not affectedfrom 1.19.23Not affected

References

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