Vulnerability Report

CVE-2025-5999

Title: Hashicorp Vault

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2025-5999.

CWE Category CWE-266

Published Date Aug 01, 2025

Modified Date Aug 13, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.2 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.16%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2025-5999: 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.

Impacted Vendors

tibco 1

hashicorp 1

Reference Links

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2025-13-vault-root-namespace-operator-may-elevate-token-privileges/76032

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.2

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2025-5999 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

August 13, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

August 13, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

August 01, 2025 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.