vault

November 12, 2026

SECURITY:

• core/acl: Harden explicit deny rule evaluation by matching requested paths case-insensitively.

CHANGES:

• auth/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.24.1
• auth/cf: Update plugin to v0.24.1
• auth/jwt: Update plugin to v0.27.2
• auth/kerberos: Update plugin to v0.18.1
• auth/oci: Update plugin to v0.22.1
• core: Bump Go version to 1.27.4
• core/acl: Fix an issue where explicit deny policy rules were not enforced against case variants of the denied path. Explicit deny rules now also match the requested path case-insensitively, subject to the usual rule specificity. For example, a deny on secret/data/example now also denies requests to secret/data/EXAMPLE.
• database/couchbase: Update plugin to v0.17.1
• database/elasticsearch: Update plugin to v0.21.1
• database/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.18.1
• database/redis: Update plugin to v0.9.1
• database/snowflake: Update plugin to v0.17.1
• proxy/agent: Custom plugins or integrations that return interactive HTML through Agent or Proxy will no longer render interactively in a browser.
• secrets/alicloud: Update plugin to v0.23.1
• secrets/azure: Update plugin to v0.28.5+ent
• secrets/keymgmt: Update plugin to v0.20.2+ent
• secrets/mongodbatlas: Update plugin to v0.18.1
• secrets/terraform: Update plugin to v0.15.1

IMPROVEMENTS:

• core: Include the namespace ID in mount setup failure logs
• core: Update github.com/go-jose/go-jose/v4 to v4.1.6 and golang.org/x/net to v0.62.0
• ui: Show "Never" as the last Vault rotation on the LDAP role credentials page when a static role has not been rotated, instead of a date in year 0001.

BUG FIXES:

• Transit (enterprise): Fix cache bug that led to non-zero auto_rotate_period values being written to the cache with managed keys
• agent/pki-external-ca (enterprise): Fix premature certificate reissuance on auto-auth re-authentication so certificate renewal respects percent_renew_before_expiry instead of being triggered by token updates.
• audit: Fixed a bug where Vault returned HTTP 500 when a large response (e.g. a PKI ?help=1 request) could not be written to a syslog audit device due to the OS Unix datagram socket size limit (EMSGSIZE / ENOBUFS). The syslog sink now splits oversized audit payloads into safe-sized chunks and retries transiently full socket buffers.
• audit: Fixes a panic that can occur when audit broker not initialized during teardown.
• auth/approle: Reject expired SecretIDs during login instead of relying on periodic tidy cleanup.
• auth/spiffe (enterprise): Fix an issue where renewable tokens were not being renewed
• core (enterprise): Fix a panic and partial namespace creation when the root agent-registry mount is unavailable
• core/census (enterprise): Fix the previous_month_complete census gauge reporting 0 in the first month after the billing start date auto-rolls, so the previous billing cycle's final client count is reported.
• core/plugin: Fix an issue where external secrets engine and auth plugins remained read-only after failing to load during startup or unseal. Operators can now restore the missing binary or registration and reload the plugin to resume writes without restarting Vault.
• core: Fix an issue where policy path matching could be inconsistent for requests that differ only by a trailing slash.
• identity: Use the reporting conflict resolver only while reloading in case-sensitive mode, to avoid collecting duplicates after unseal.
• pki-external-ca: Fix premature deletion of revoked certificate records during tidy; revoked orders are now retained until the certificate's NotAfter date rather than the ACME order expiry
• secrets/azure: Continue permanent application cleanup when the active application is already absent, allowing later cleanup attempts to retry the purge.
• secrets/azure: Retry transient Microsoft Graph 403/404 errors when adding newly created service principals to Azure groups.
• secrets/kv: Fixed an issue in KV v1 where writing a secret path containing consecutive slashes caused list operations to return "/" as a directory entry, producing an infinite loop in the Vault UI breadcrumb.
• tpm: tpm auth now respects the InsecureSkipVerify option
• ui: Fix the database overview page to list both dynamic and static roles and allow credential generation, and restore the Roles tab for users with only static-role permissions
• ui: fixes pagination on entities list table
• vault proxy: Support tpm method in the auto_auth block to match parity with agent.