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CVE-2026-14886: Vault Enterprise vulnerable to cross-namespace entity deletion
- Severity: high (CVSS 8.2 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-08-10 · updated 2026-10-23
- Weakness: CWE-862
Description
Vault Enterprise's identity entity batch-delete endpoint is vulnerable to a cross-namespace authorization bypass that may allow an authenticated caller in one namespace to permanently delete the storage backing of entities belonging to another namespace. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-14886) is fixed in Vault Enterprise 2.0.4, 1.21.9, 1.20.14 and 1.19.20.
Affected products
- HashiCorp Vault: from 2.0.0 before 2.0.4 — fixed in 2.0.4
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: HashiCorp Vault 2.0.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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