Bug 2459105 (CVE-2026-3605)

Summary: CVE-2026-3605 Vault: Vault: Denial of Service due to unauthorized secret deletion via policy bypass
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
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A flaw was found in Vault. 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. This vulnerability can lead to a denial-of-service by allowing the deletion of critical data. It does not permit a malicious user to delete secrets across namespaces or read any secret data.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-04-17 04:01:41 UTC 
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.