CVE-2026-14886 PUBLISHED

Vault Enterprise vulnerable to cross-namespace entity deletion

Assigner: HashiCorp
Reserved: 06.07.2026 Published: 10.08.2026 Updated: 10.08.2026

Vault Enterprise's identity entity batch-delete endpoint is vulnerable to a cross-namespace authorization bypass that may allow an authenticated caller in one namespace to permanently delete the storage backing of entities belonging to another namespace. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-14886) is fixed in Vault Enterprise 2.0.4, 1.21.9, 1.20.14 and 1.19.20.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.2

Product Status

Vendor HashiCorp
Product Vault Enterprise
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 2.0.0 to 2.0.4 (excl.)

Credits

  • This issue was reported to HashiCorp by Harish Kolla.

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-122: Privilege Abuse