CVE-2026-3605
HIGH8.1EPSS 0.02%Vault KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass Denial-of-Service
Published: 4/17/2026Modified: 4/21/2026
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.
Affected packages (2)
- Bitnami/vault>= 0.10.0, < 2.0.0
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/vault>= 0.10.0, <= 1.21.4
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH8.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H |