CVE-2026-3605 PUBLISHED

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

Assigner: HashiCorp
Reserved: 05.03.2026 Published: 17.04.2026 Updated: 17.04.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 8.1

Product Status

Vendor HashiCorp
Product Vault
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.10.0 to 2.0.0 (excl.)
Vendor HashiCorp
Product Vault Enterprise
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 0.10.0 to 2.0.0 (excl.)

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-288: Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel CWE

Impacts

  • CAPEC-126: Path Traversal