HIGH 7.2 Go
Hashicorp Vault has Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
GHSA-6h4p-m86h-hhgh · BIT-vault-2025-5999 · CVE-2025-5999 · GO-2025-3837
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Description
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.
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