CVE-2026-89322

Vault ACL Policy Evaluation May Allow Bypass of Deny Restrictions

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: October 7, 2026 at 10:01 PM UTC
Updated: October 9, 2026 at 04:18 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorVault

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
SSVC
No known exploit

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

0.0.1 ≤ v < 2.1.20.0.1

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet, and no fixed version or vendor advisory is recorded against it.

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

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CVSS

7.2HIGHHashiCorp
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusAWAITING ANALYSIS
CWE
CWE-178

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