Vault's ACL policy cache allowed namespace traversal when policy names contained path traversal constructs. This may allow a token assigned specially crafted policy names to use the capabilities of policies defined in other namespaces, including the root namespace. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-105820) is fixed in Vault Enterprise 2.1.2, 1.21.12, 1.20.17, and 1.19.23. Vault Community Edition does not support namespaces, and is not affected.
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Vendor advisories in the News 1
- HCSEC-2026-42 - Vault Enterprise ACL Policy Cache Vulnerable to Cross-Namespace Policy Resolution HashiCorp security bulletins · 2026-10-07
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Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 5.4NVD modified 2026-10-08 21:07
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
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