CVE-2026-5807: hashicorp vault
Vulnerability summary
CVE-2026-5807 is a high (CVSS 7.5) vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.91% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 59.4% of scored vulnerabilities.
Advisory lineage
Upstream 0 · Downstream 2 · Related 3Timeline
- 17-04-2026PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
- 15-07-2026Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.
Description
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.
CVSS metrics
5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version- OSV · WolfiEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · GoEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- OSV · ChainguardEcosystem advisory · calculated7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVDNIST7.5HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS trend
Probability
0.91%
Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
Percentile
59%
Versus all other CVEs
30-day change
+0.19 pp
From 0.72% on 21-09-2026
Known exploited
Compare KEV catalogsNot in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.
Public exploits
0 foundNo public exploits indexed.
Weaknesses
CWE · root causeAffected systems
Chainguard13 products
- splunk-otel-collector< 0.157.0-r0
- splunk-otel-collector-compat< 0.160.0-r0
- splunk-otel-collector-fips< 0.157.0-r0
- vault-1.16All versions (No fix recorded)
- vault-1.17All versions (No fix recorded)
Hashicorp2 products
- vault< 2.0.0
- vault enterprise< 2.0.0.
Wolfi2 products
- splunk-otel-collector< 0.157.0-r0
- splunk-otel-collector-compat< 0.160.0-r0
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
- vault≤ 1.21.4 | All versions (No fix recorded)
4 vendors · 18 products
References
8 links- github.com/hashicorp/vaultPACKAGE