{"id":"GHSA-m2w4-8ggf-rj47","summary":"HashiCorp Vault has a KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass that leads to Denial-of-Service","details":"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. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.0 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.","aliases":["BIT-vault-2026-3605","CVE-2026-3605","GO-2026-5487"],"modified":"2026-07-17T21:16:16.001126608Z","published":"2026-04-17T06:31:07Z","database_specific":{"github_reviewed_at":"2026-04-18T00:51:47Z","nvd_published_at":"2026-04-17T04:16:03Z","cwe_ids":["CWE-288"],"severity":"HIGH","github_reviewed":true},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3605"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-05-vault-kvv2-metadata-and-secret-deletion-policy-bypass-denial-of-service/77342"},{"type":"PACKAGE","url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","ecosystem":"Go","purl":"pkg:golang/github.com/hashicorp/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0.10.0"},{"last_affected":"1.21.4"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/github/advisory-database/blob/main/advisories/github-reviewed/2026/04/GHSA-m2w4-8ggf-rj47/GHSA-m2w4-8ggf-rj47.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.9.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"}]}