CVE-2026-5052

Medium

Description

Vault’s PKI engine’s ACME validation did not reject local targets when issuing http-01 and tls-alpn-01 challenges. This may lead to these requests being sent to local network targets, potentially leading to information disclosure. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 2.0.0 and Vault Enterprise 2.0.0, 1.21.5, 1.20.10, and 1.19.16.

SeverityMedium
CVSS5.3
Exploit probability—
ProductHashicorp Vault
PublishedApr 17, 2026
First seenApr 17, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • hashicorp vault1.19.16, 2.0.0, 1.20.10, 1.21.5 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
hashicorp vault1.14.0 ≤ v < 1.19.16, 1.14.0 ≤ v < 2.0.0, 1.20.0 ≤ v < 1.20.10, 1.21.0 ≤ v < 1.21.51.19.16, 2.0.0, 1.20.10, 1.21.5
github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo1.14.0 ≤ v ≤ 1.21.4, 1.14.0 ≤ v—

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