Vault and Vault Enterprise did not consistently evaluate ACL policies against the canonical form of resource and policy names. This may allow an authenticated user with delegated permissions to bypass an explicit deny restriction and access a protected resource or assign a denied policy, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-89322) is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.1.2, and Vault Enterprise 2.1.2, 1.21.12, 1.20.17, and 1.19.23.

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Wed, 07 Oct 2026 23:45:00 +0000

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Description Vault and Vault Enterprise did not consistently evaluate ACL policies against the canonical form of resource and policy names. This may allow an authenticated user with delegated permissions to bypass an explicit deny restriction and access a protected resource or assign a denied policy, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-89322) is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.1.2, and Vault Enterprise 2.1.2, 1.21.12, 1.20.17, and 1.19.23.
Title Vault ACL Policy Evaluation May Allow Bypass of Deny Restrictions
Weaknesses CWE-178
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.2, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-07T22:01:37.893Z

Reserved: 2026-09-11T14:10:52.452Z

Link: CVE-2026-89322

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-10-07T23:17:01.197

Modified: 2026-10-07T23:17:01.197

Link: CVE-2026-89322

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Updated: 2026-10-07T23:30:07Z

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