CVE-2026-3605 (GCVE-0-2026-3605)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-17 02:44 – Updated: 2026-04-17 17:57
VLAI
Title
Vault KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass Denial-of-Service
Summary
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.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-288 - Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
HashiCorp Vault Affected: 0.10.0 , < 2.0.0 (semver)
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HashiCorp Vault Enterprise Affected: 0.10.0 , < 2.0.0 (semver)
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Credits
This issue was independently identified and reported by chungkn from OneMount Group, as well as Andy RUSSON et Gabriel DEPARTOUT from almond.eu , sponsored the ANSSI (French Cybersecurity Agency) open-source security audit program.
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