Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges (CVE-2025-5999)

Summary

Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami vault

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0.10.4"},{"fixed":"1.20.0"}]}]

References

advisory discuss.hashicorp.com
web nvd.nist.gov