Security Advisory

CVE-2025-5999

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2025-08-01 17:38:58
Last updated 2025-08-01 18:08:59
Assigner HashiCorp
CVSS score 7.2
State PUBLISHED

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.