Description
An authorization bypass vulnerability in the Vault secrets back-end implementation of Juju versions 3.1.6 through 3.6.18 allows an authenticated unit agent to perform unauthorized updates to secret revisions. With sufficient information, an attacker can poison any existing secret revision within the scope of that Vault secret back-end.
Published: 2026-03-18
Score: 7.6 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: Unauthorized privileged update to Vault secrets
Action: Immediate Patch
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-89x7-5m5m-mcmm Juju has unauthorized update of out-of-scope Vault secrets
History

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:canonical:juju:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Thu, 19 Mar 2026 09:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Canonical
Canonical juju
Vendors & Products Canonical
Canonical juju

Wed, 18 Mar 2026 14:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description An authorization bypass vulnerability in the Vault secrets back-end implementation of Juju versions 3.1.6 through 3.6.18 allows an authenticated unit agent to perform unauthorized updates to secret revisions. With sufficient information, an attacker can poison any existing secret revision within the scope of that Vault secret back-end.
Title Unauthorized update of out-of-scope Vault secrets
Weaknesses CWE-285
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: canonical

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-18T13:42:54.697Z

Reserved: 2026-03-13T12:53:34.544Z

Link: CVE-2026-32692

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-03-18T13:42:50.071Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2026-03-18T13:16:18.710

Modified: 2026-03-19T15:23:26.870

Link: CVE-2026-32692

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-03-24T10:58:49Z

Weaknesses