Vault Enterprise

Vault is vulnerable to a denial-of-service condition where an unauthenticated attacker can repeatedly initiate or cancel root token generation or rekey operations, occupying the single in-progress operation slot. This prevents legitimate operators from completing these workflows. This vulnerability, CVE-2026-5807, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.0 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.0.

Published: 2026-04-17T03:22:13.816Z
Updated: 2026-04-17T17:57:55.504Z

Vault’s PKI engine’s ACME validation did not reject local targets when issuing http-01 and tls-alpn-01 challenges. This may lead to these requests being sent to local network targets, potentially leading to information disclosure. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.0 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.

Published: 2026-04-17T02:55:25.080Z
Updated: 2026-04-17T17:57:55.377Z

If a Vault auth mount is configured to pass through the "Authorization" header, and the "Authorization" header is used to authenticate to Vault, Vault forwarded the Vault token to the auth plugin backend. Fixed in 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.

Published: 2026-04-17T03:00:47.561Z
Updated: 2026-04-17T17:22:41.255Z

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.

Published: 2026-04-17T02:44:42.032Z
Updated: 2026-04-17T17:57:55.431Z

A malicious user may submit a specially-crafted complex payload that otherwise meets the default request size limit which results in excessive memory and CPU consumption of Vault. This may lead to a timeout in Vault’s auditing subroutine, potentially resulting in the Vault server to become unresponsive. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-6203, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.3 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.3, 1.19.9, 1.18.14, and 1.16.25.

Published: 2025-08-28T19:36:09.870Z
Updated: 2025-10-23T18:18:34.361Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as [+trusted certificate+|https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/api-docs/auth/cert#certificate]. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to impersonate another user. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

Published: 2025-08-01T17:52:48.778Z
Updated: 2026-02-26T17:50:09.821Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) login MFA rate limits could be bypassed and TOTP tokens could be reused. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

Published: 2025-08-01T18:03:53.214Z
Updated: 2025-08-01T18:35:17.893Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) TOTP Secrets Engine code validation endpoint is susceptible to code reuse within its validity period. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

Published: 2025-08-01T17:50:09.308Z
Updated: 2025-08-01T18:05:37.553Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) ldap auth method may not have correctly enforced MFA if username_as_alias was set to true and a user had multiple CNs that are equal but with leading or trailing spaces. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.2 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.2, 1.19.8, 1.18.13, and 1.16.24.

Published: 2025-08-06T10:06:55.668Z
Updated: 2026-02-26T17:49:53.769Z

A timing side channel in Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) userpass auth method allowed an attacker to distinguish between existing and non-existing users, and potentially enumerate valid usernames for Vault’s Userpass auth method. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

Published: 2025-08-01T18:00:24.528Z
Updated: 2025-08-01T19:06:58.251Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) user lockout feature could be bypassed for Userpass and LDAP authentication methods. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

Published: 2025-08-01T17:56:00.780Z
Updated: 2025-08-01T19:11:52.729Z

A privileged Vault operator within the root namespace with write permission to {{sys/audit}} may obtain code execution on the underlying host if a plugin directory is set in Vault’s configuration. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.

Published: 2025-08-01T17:40:48.524Z
Updated: 2025-08-01T18:12:02.883Z

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.

Published: 2025-08-01T17:38:58.409Z
Updated: 2025-08-01T18:08:59.605Z

Vault Community and Vault Enterprise rekey and recovery key operations can lead to a denial of service due to uncontrolled cancellation by a Vault operator. This vulnerability (CVE-2025-4656) has been remediated in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11, 1.17.17, and 1.16.22.

Published: 2025-06-25T16:15:11.861Z
Updated: 2025-06-25T20:05:45.581Z

Vault Community and Vault Enterprise Key/Value (kv) Version 2 plugin may unintentionally expose sensitive information in server and audit logs when users submit malformed payloads during secret creation or update operations via the Vault REST API. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-4166, is fixed in Vault Community 1.19.3 and Vault Enterprise 1.19.3, 1.18.9, 1.17.16, 1.16.20.

Published: 2025-05-02T14:57:58.710Z
Updated: 2025-05-08T13:01:48.440Z

Vault Community, Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) Azure Auth method did not correctly validate the claims in the Azure-issued token, resulting in the potential bypass of the bound_locations parameter on login. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.19.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.19.1, 1.18.7, 1.17.14, 1.16.18.

Published: 2025-05-02T16:15:10.650Z
Updated: 2025-05-02T16:50:15.195Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) are vulnerable to an unauthenticated denial of service when processing JSON payloads. This occurs due to a regression from a previous fix for [+HCSEC-2025-24+|https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-24-vault-denial-of-service-though-complex-json-payloads/76393]  which allowed for processing JSON payloads before applying rate limits. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-12044, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.21.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.16.27, 1.19.11, 1.20.5, and 1.21.0.

Published: 2025-10-23T19:15:16.567Z
Updated: 2025-10-23T20:00:16.601Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) AWS Auth method may be susceptible to authentication bypass if the role of the configured bound_principal_iam is the same across AWS accounts, or uses a wildcard. This vulnerability, CVE-2025-11621, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.21.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.21.0, 1.20.5, 1.19.11, and 1.16.27

Published: 2025-10-23T19:08:54.989Z
Updated: 2026-02-26T16:57:11.235Z

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.18.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.0, 1.17.7, 1.16.11, and 1.15.16.

Published: 2024-10-10T20:54:57.084Z
Updated: 2024-11-08T22:27:31.042Z

Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise experienced a regression where functionality that HMAC’d sensitive headers in the configured audit device, specifically client tokens and token accessors, was removed. This resulted in the plaintext values of client tokens and token accessors being stored in the audit log. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-8365, was fixed in Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise 1.17.5 and Vault Enterprise 1.16.9.

Published: 2024-09-02T01:30:56.618Z
Updated: 2024-09-04T17:18:36.980Z

Vault Community and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) clusters using Vault’s Integrated Storage backend are vulnerable to a denial-of-service (DoS) attack through memory exhaustion through a Raft cluster join API endpoint . An attacker may send a large volume of requests to the endpoint which may cause Vault to consume excessive system memory resources, potentially leading to a crash of the underlying system and the Vault process itself. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-8185, is fixed in Vault Community 1.18.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.1, 1.17.8, and 1.16.12.

Published: 2024-10-31T15:14:55.145Z
Updated: 2024-10-31T17:11:35.647Z

Vault’s SSH secrets engine did not require the valid_principals list to contain a value by default. If the valid_principals and default_user fields of the SSH secrets engine configuration are not set, an SSH certificate requested by an authorized user to Vault’s SSH secrets engine could be used to authenticate as any user on the host. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.17.6, and in Vault Enterprise 1.17.6, 1.16.10, and 1.15.15.

Published: 2024-09-26T19:52:55.652Z
Updated: 2025-01-10T13:06:49.543Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly handle requests originating from unauthorized IP addresses when the TCP listener option, proxy_protocol_behavior, was set to deny_unauthorized. When receiving a request from a source IP address that was not listed in proxy_protocol_authorized_addrs, the Vault API server would shut down and no longer respond to any HTTP requests, potentially resulting in denial of service. While this bug also affected versions of Vault up to 1.17.1 and 1.16.5, a separate regression in those release series did not allow Vault operators to configure the deny_unauthorized option, thus not allowing the conditions for the denial of service to occur. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.2, 1.16.6, and 1.15.12.

Published: 2024-07-11T20:40:12.298Z
Updated: 2024-08-01T21:41:03.514Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly validate the JSON Web Token (JWT) role-bound audience claim when using the Vault JWT auth method. This may have resulted in Vault validating a JWT the audience and role-bound claims do not match, allowing an invalid login to succeed when it should have been rejected. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-5798, was fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.0, 1.16.3, and 1.15.9

Published: 2024-06-12T18:55:24.788Z
Updated: 2025-11-04T16:30:51.697Z

Vault Enterprise, when configured with performance standby nodes and a configured audit device, will inadvertently log request headers on the standby node. These logs may have included sensitive HTTP request information in cleartext. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-2877, was fixed in Vault Enterprise 1.15.8.

Published: 2024-04-30T14:58:09.735Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T17:47:31.156Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise TLS certificates auth method did not correctly validate OCSP responses when one or more OCSP sources were configured. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-2660, affects Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.14.0 and above, and is fixed in Vault 1.16.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.16.1, 1.15.7, and 1.14.11.

Published: 2024-04-04T17:55:20.192Z
Updated: 2024-09-26T00:13:17.242Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to bypass authentication. Fixed in Vault 1.15.5 and 1.14.10.

Published: 2024-03-04T19:56:47.253Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T17:32:32.417Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) may expose sensitive information when enabling an audit device which specifies the `log_raw` option, which may log sensitive information to other audit devices, regardless of whether they are configured to use `log_raw`.

Published: 2024-02-01T01:41:33.801Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T17:27:29.010Z

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.12.0 and newer are vulnerable to a denial of service through memory exhaustion of the host when handling large unauthenticated and authenticated HTTP requests from a client. Vault will attempt to map the request to memory, resulting in the exhaustion of available memory on the host, which may cause Vault to crash. Fixed in Vault 1.15.4, 1.14.8, 1.13.12.

Published: 2023-12-08T21:12:31.712Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T17:26:18.153Z

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise inbound client requests triggering a policy check can lead to an unbounded consumption of memory. A large number of these requests may lead to denial-of-service. Fixed in Vault 1.15.2, 1.14.6, and 1.13.10.

Published: 2023-11-09T20:13:49.346Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T17:25:58.499Z

The Vault and Vault Enterprise ("Vault") Google Cloud secrets engine did not preserve existing Google Cloud IAM Conditions upon creating or updating rolesets. Fixed in Vault 1.13.0.

Published: 2023-09-28T23:24:28.643Z
Updated: 2024-09-26T21:57:22.469Z

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise transit secrets engine allowed authorized users to specify arbitrary nonces, even with convergent encryption disabled. The encrypt endpoint, in combination with an offline attack, could be used to decrypt arbitrary ciphertext and potentially derive the authentication subkey when using transit secrets engine without convergent encryption. Introduced in 1.6.0 and fixed in 1.14.3, 1.13.7, and 1.12.11.

Published: 2023-09-14T23:06:24.546Z
Updated: 2024-09-26T17:38:48.629Z

A Vault Enterprise Sentinel Role Governing Policy created by an operator to restrict access to resources in one namespace can be applied to requests outside in another non-descendant namespace, potentially resulting in denial of service. Fixed in Vault Enterprise 1.15.0, 1.14.4, 1.13.8.

Published: 2023-09-28T23:17:24.349Z
Updated: 2024-09-26T21:50:59.474Z

An unhandled error in Vault Enterprise's namespace creation may cause the Vault process to crash, potentially resulting in denial of service. Fixed in 1.14.1, 1.13.5, and 1.12.9.

Published: 2023-07-28T00:45:04.379Z
Updated: 2024-10-22T18:22:38.101Z

HashiCorp's Vault and Vault Enterprise are vulnerable to user enumeration when using the LDAP auth method. An attacker may submit requests of existent and non-existent LDAP users and observe the response from Vault to check if the account is valid on the LDAP server. This vulnerability is fixed in Vault 1.14.1 and 1.13.5.

Published: 2023-07-31T22:40:23.432Z
Updated: 2024-10-21T18:04:40.093Z

HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.13.0 up to 1.13.1 is vulnerable to a padding oracle attack when using an HSM in conjunction with the CKM_AES_CBC_PAD or CKM_AES_CBC encryption mechanisms. An attacker with privileges to modify storage and restart Vault may be able to intercept or modify cipher text in order to derive Vault’s root key. Fixed in 1.13.2

Published: 2023-05-01T19:41:17.600Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T16:40:36.424Z

Vault and Vault Enterprise's (Vault) key-value v2 (kv-v2) diff viewer allowed HTML injection into the Vault web UI through key values. This vulnerability, CVE-2023-2121, is fixed in Vault 1.14.0, 1.13.3, 1.12.7, and 1.11.11.

Published: 2023-06-09T16:59:49.065Z
Updated: 2025-01-06T18:15:00.958Z

HashiCorp Vault's implementation of Shamir's secret sharing used precomputed table lookups, and was vulnerable to cache-timing attacks. An attacker with access to, and the ability to observe a large number of unseal operations on the host through a side channel may reduce the search space of a brute force effort to recover the Shamir shares. Fixed in Vault 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9.

Published: 2023-03-30T00:17:46.230Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T16:44:28.625Z

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise’s approle auth method allowed any authenticated user with access to an approle destroy endpoint to destroy the secret ID of any other role by providing the secret ID accessor. This vulnerability is fixed in Vault 1.13.0, 1.12.4, 1.11.8, 1.10.11 and above.

Published: 2023-03-10T23:12:47.638Z
Updated: 2025-03-03T20:46:23.638Z

HashiCorp Vault's PKI mount issuer endpoints did not correctly authorize access to remove an issuer or modify issuer metadata, potentially resulting in denial of service of the PKI mount. This bug did not affect public or private key material, trust chains or certificate issuance. Fixed in Vault 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9.

Published: 2023-03-30T00:21:47.676Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T16:39:04.425Z

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.8.0 through 1.13.1 are vulnerable to an SQL injection attack when configuring the Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Database Storage Backend. When configuring the MSSQL plugin through the local, certain parameters are not sanitized when passed to the user-provided MSSQL database. An attacker may modify these parameters to execute a malicious SQL command. This issue is fixed in versions 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9.

Published: 2023-03-30T00:28:13.301Z
Updated: 2025-02-13T16:39:02.965Z