{"id":"BIT-vault-2026-3605","summary":"Vault KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass 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. Fxed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.0 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.","aliases":["CVE-2026-3605","GHSA-m2w4-8ggf-rj47","GO-2026-5487"],"modified":"2026-09-08T08:48:21.495486042Z","published":"2026-04-21T12:15:52.905Z","database_specific":{"severity":"High","cpes":["cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:*:go:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:go:*:*","cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:community:go:*:*"]},"references":[{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-05-vault-kvv2-metadata-and-secret-deletion-policy-bypass-denial-of-service/77342"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3605"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-3605"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2459105"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/2026/cve-2026-3605.json"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"vault","ecosystem":"Bitnami","purl":"pkg:bitnami/vault"},"ranges":[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"0.10.0"},{"fixed":"2.0.0"}]}],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/bitnami/vulndb/tree/main/data/vault/BIT-vault-2026-3605.json"},"severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H"}]}],"schema_version":"1.9.0"}