CVE-2026-5006

MEDIUMPre-NVD 6.86.8—
EchelonGraph scoreHIGH confidence

Score 6.8 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-24. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.8; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: epss, ghsa, secondary
Trending — 4 sources updated this week
6.8EG
EchelonGraph verdictMonitorLow exploitation likelihood right now — keep watching.
  • Lower severity and no public exploit yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0%CVSS: 6.8Exploit: None knownExposed: 0

No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.

A vulnerability was identified in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) such that an authenticated attacker may manipulate an identity value referenced by a templated policy path to gain unintended access to Vault paths.

An attacker who can control the referenced identity value may include slash ({{/}}) characters that Vault interprets as additional path segments when rendering the policy.

This vulnerability, CVE-2026-5006, was fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.4 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.4, 1.21.9, 1.20.14, and 1.19.20.

CVSS v3
6.8
EG Score
6.8(high)
EG Risk
31(Track)
EG Risk 31/100SSVC: 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 computed
Severity68% × 45%
Exploitation0% × 40%
Automatability0% × 15%
Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence.
EPSS PROB
0%
EPSS %ILE
7%
KEV
Not listed

Published

August 24, 2026

Last Modified

August 26, 2026

Advisory Details (1)

Auto-updated Aug 24, 2026
No patch confirmed yet.
generic

HCSEC-2026-32 - Vault Vulnerable to Privilege Escalation via Slash Injection in Templated Policy Paths - Security - HashiCorp Discuss

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-32-vault-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-via-slash-injection-in-templated-policy-paths

Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-5006(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 16× in last 7d / 16× 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.

  1. 2026-08-27 15:47 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-08-27 15:47 UTCGHSA enrichment
  3. 2026-08-27 14:25 UTCEPSS rescore
  4. 2026-08-26 15:59 UTCEG score recompute
  5. 2026-08-26 15:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
  6. 2026-08-26 14:46 UTCEPSS rescore
  7. 2026-08-26 04:11 UTCEG score recompute
  8. 2026-08-26 04:11 UTCGHSA enrichment
  9. 2026-08-25 18:28 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-08-25 18:28 UTCGHSA enrichment
  11. 2026-08-25 17:56 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-08-25 17:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
  13. 2026-08-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
  14. 2026-08-24 21:26 UTCEG score recompute
  15. 2026-08-24 20:36 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-08-24 20:36 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-5006?
CVE-2026-5006 is a medium vulnerability published on August 24, 2026. A vulnerability was identified in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) such that an authenticated attacker may manipulate an identity value referenced by a templated policy path to gain unintended access to Vault paths. An attacker who can control the referenced identity value may include…
When was CVE-2026-5006 disclosed?
CVE-2026-5006 was first published in the National Vulnerability Database on August 24, 2026, with the most recent update on August 26, 2026. EchelonGraph re-ingests CVE updates from NVD on a 2-hour cycle, so this page reflects the latest published state.
Is CVE-2026-5006 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-5006 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, which ranks it in the top 93.5% of all scored CVEs.
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-5006?
CVE-2026-5006 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.8 (NVD).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-5006?
Patch to the fixed version published by the affected vendor. Where vendor advisories exist for CVE-2026-5006, EchelonGraph cross-links them in the Vendor Advisories panel below — those typically contain the canonical remediation steps, fixed version numbers, and any vendor-specific mitigations.

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