CVE-2025-5999: Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

August 1, 2025

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.

References

discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vault-root-namespace-operator-may-elevate-token-privileges/76032
github.com/advisories/GHSA-6h4p-m86h-hhgh
github.com/hashicorp/vault
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5999

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