Vault Authenticated Deletion via Policy Globbing ( 2.0.0)
CVE-2026-3605 Published on April 17, 2026

Vault KVv2 Metadata and Secret Deletion Policy Bypass Denial-of-Service
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.

NVD

Vulnerability Analysis

CVE-2026-3605 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have no impact on confidentiality, a high impact on integrity and availability.

Attack Vector:
NETWORK
Attack Complexity:
LOW
Privileges Required:
LOW
User Interaction:
NONE
Scope:
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact:
NONE
Integrity Impact:
HIGH
Availability Impact:
HIGH

Weakness Types

Authentication Bypass Using an Alternate Path or Channel

A product requires authentication, but the product has an alternate path or channel that does not require authentication.

What is an Insecure Direct Object Reference / IDOR Vulnerability?

The system's authorization functionality does not prevent one user from gaining access to another user's data or record by modifying the key value identifying the data.

CVE-2026-3605 has been classified to as an Insecure Direct Object Reference / IDOR vulnerability or weakness.


Products Associated with CVE-2026-3605

You can be notified by email with stack.watch whenever vulnerabilities like CVE-2026-3605 are published in these products:

HashiCorp Vault
 
Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation
 
Red Hat Openshift
 

Affected Versions

HashiCorp Vault: HashiCorp Vault Enterprise: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4: Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4:

Exploit Probability

EPSS
0.30%
Percentile
21.56%

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System) scores estimate the probability that a vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days. The percentile shows you how this score compares to all other vulnerabilities.