CVE-2026-3605highCWE-288CWE-639

CVE-2026-3605: high-severity vulnerability in HashiCorp Vault

Vault KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass Denial-of-Service

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21Vexday Risk Score

No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.

ssvc Trackcvss 8.1epss 0.4%
An authenticated user with access to a kvv2 path through a policy containing a glob may be able to delete secrets they were not authorized to read or write, resulting in denial-of-service. This vulnerability did not allow a malicious user to delete secrets across namespaces, nor read any secret data. Fxed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.0 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
Affected products
HashiCorp · VaultHashiCorp · Vault Enterprise
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