7.2

CVE-2025-5999: hashicorp vault Incorrect Privilege Assignment

CVSS: 7.2v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-p6q5-79xx-j32rCGA-vg78-27rq-whr5GHSA-6h4p-m86h-hhgh
Published 01-08-2025Last modified 01-08-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-5999 is a high (CVSS 7.2) Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.51% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 42.2% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
29/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.2/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.51%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 3 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15434-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15460-1SUSE-SU-2025:02912-1CGA-6MJJ-VXQ3-6PMM

Timeline

  1. 01-08-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 01-08-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

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.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.51%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

42%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.51% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.51%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Chainguard6 products
  • splunk-otel-collector< 0.138.0-r0
  • splunk-otel-collector-fips< 0.138.0-r1
  • vault-1.16All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.17All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.18All versions (No fix recorded)
Hashicorp2 products
  • vault≥ 0.10.4, < 1.16.22 | ≥ 0.10.4, < 1.20.0 | ≥ 1.17.0, < 1.18.11 | ≥ 1.19.0, < 1.19.6
  • vault enterprise≥ 0.10.4, < 1.20.0
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 0.10.4, < 1.20.0
Wolfi1 product
  • splunk-otel-collector< 0.138.0-r0

4 vendors · 10 products

References

6 links