CVE-2026-3605

high

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.

References

https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-3605.json

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-23346

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-05-vault-kvv2-metadata-and-secret-deletion-policy-bypass-denial-of-service/77342

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459105

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3605

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-04-17

Updated: 2026-07-15

Named Vulnerability: GO-2026-5487Named Vulnerability: GHSA-m2w4-8ggf-rj47

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:C/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00504