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.
CVE-2026-14886
Score 8.2 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: HIGH) published 2026-08-10. a secondary CVSS source baseline 8.2; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.2
- EG Score
- 8.2(high)
- EG Risk
- 37(Track)EG Risk 37/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity82% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 15%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 10, 2026
Last Modified
August 12, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Aug 10, 2026HCSEC-2026-27 - Vault Enterprise vulnerable to cross-namespace entity deletion - Security - HashiCorp Discuss
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-27-vault-enterprise-vulnerable-to-cross-namespace-entity-deletion/77634Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-14886(2)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 27× in last 7d / 42× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-19 23:16 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 23:16 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-19 10:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 22:34 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 22:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 10:13 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 21:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 21:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 09:29 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 21:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 21:08 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 08:47 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 08:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 20:26 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 08:05 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-15 08:05 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-15 01:30 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-14 19:43 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 07:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-14 07:22 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 19:01 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 06:40 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 18:19 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-12 18:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 18:17 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-12 18:17 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-12 09:33 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 21:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 21:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-11 13:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-11 08:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 08:51 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-10 20:30 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-10 19:20 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-10 19:19 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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