CVE-2026-3605

Name
CVE-2026-3605
Description
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.
NVD Severity
unknown
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

Type URI
security@hashicorp.com https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-05-vault-kvv2-metadata-and-secret-deletion-policy-bypass-denial-of-service/77342
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3605
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459105
0b0ca135-0b70-47e7-9f44-1890c2a1c46c https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-3605.json

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* vault >= 0.10.0 < 1.19.16
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* vault >= 0.10.0 < 2.0.0
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* vault >= 1.20.0 < 1.20.10
cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* vault >= 1.21.0 < 1.21.5

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status
vault edge-community 1.14.0-r0 Mike Crute <mike@crute.us> possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.13.2-r0 Mike Crute <mike@crute.us> possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.11.4-r0 Gennady Feldman <gena01@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.9.4-r0 Gennady Feldman <gena01@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.7.2-r0 Gennady Feldman <gena01@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.7.1-r0 Gennady Feldman <gena01@gmail.com> possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.6.3-r0 None possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.5.7-r0 None possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.5.6-r0 None possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.5.4-r0 None possibly vulnerable
vault edge-community 1.4.3-r0 None possibly vulnerable
openbao edge-community 2.5.4-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> fixed
openbao 3.24-community 2.5.4-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> fixed
openbao 3.23-community 2.5.4-r0 Kevin Daudt <kdaudt@alpinelinux.org> fixed