Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise did not apply explicit ACL policy deny rules to letter case variants of user and group names in auth methods that treat these names as case-insensitive. This may allow an authenticated user with delegated permissions to modify a protected user or group, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-128100) is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.2.2 and Vault Enterprise 2.2.2, 1.21.14, and 1.19.25.
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Description Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise did not apply explicit ACL policy deny rules to letter case variants of user and group names in auth methods that treat these names as case-insensitive. This may allow an authenticated user with delegated permissions to modify a protected user or group, potentially leading to privilege escalation. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-128100) is fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.2.2 and Vault Enterprise 2.2.2, 1.21.14, and 1.19.25.
Title Vault vulnerable to ACL deny bypass via case-variant auth method user and group names
Weaknesses CWE-178
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Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: HashiCorp

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-13T20:10:09.065Z

Reserved: 2026-11-12T22:16:53.115Z

Link: CVE-2026-128100

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-13T20:18:56.070

Modified: 2026-11-13T20:18:56.070

Link: CVE-2026-128100

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