What is GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8?

GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. A vulnerability was identified in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) such that an...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8 cover?

GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-5006. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8?

GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8 has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8MediumCVSS 6.8

A vulnerability was identified in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) such that an...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

August 24, 2026

Last Modified

August 24, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-5006 →

📋 Description

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.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5006
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-32-vault-vulnerable-to-privilege-escalation-via-slash-injection-in-templated-policy-paths
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-5h48-5rrm-m3c8