Bug 2386006 (CVE-2025-5999) - CVE-2025-5999 github.com/hashicorp/vault: Vault Identity Token Privilege Escalation
Summary: CVE-2025-5999 github.com/hashicorp/vault: Vault Identity Token Privilege Esca...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2025-5999
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-08-01 18:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-08-19 15:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-08-01 18:01:28 UTC 
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.
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