CVE-2026-89322
Vault and Vault Enterprise did not consistently evaluate ACL policies against the canonical form of…
- Risk score
- 47/100
- CVSS
- 7.2 v3.1
- Exploit chance (30 days)
- 0.3%
- Published
- 7 Oct 2026
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What to know
- What it is
- Vault and Vault Enterprise did not consistently evaluate ACL policies against the canonical form of resource and policy names. This may allow an authenticated user with delegated permissions to bypass an explicit deny restriction and access a protected resource or assign a denied policy, potentially leading to privile…
- Affected
- See advisory
- Fix
- Apply the vendor's security update; see the linked advisory.
- Exploitation
- No known exploitation
Why it is Yellow
- CVSS 7.2 high
References
Original description
Vault and Vault Enterprise did not consistently evaluate ACL policies against the canonical form of resource and policy names. This may allow an authenticated user with delegated permissions to bypass an explicit deny restriction and access a protected resource or assign a denied policy, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-89322) is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.1.2, and Vault Enterprise 2.1.2, 1.21.12, 1.20.17, and 1.19.23.
Last activity 7 Oct 2026. Patch Forecast updates every hour.