CVE-2025-5999
A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22.
- Affected products
- Alt Linux, Red Os, Vault Community Edition, Vault Enterprise
- Hashicorp Vault
- < 1.16.22, 1.20.0, 1.18.11, 1.19.6
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.2 HIGH
- EPSS
- 0.5% (39th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-266
- NVD status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2025-08-01
- Attack patterns
- CAPEC-233
CVE-2025-5999 at NVD
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