CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.2. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.
CVE
CVE-2025-5999
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.2
EPSS
0.49%
Original NVD Description
A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.0, 1.19.6, 1.18.11 and 1.16.22.
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