Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims

CVE-2024-5798
2.6LOW

Key Information

Vendor
Hashicorp
Status
Vault
Vault Enterprise
Vendor
CVE Published:
12 June 2024

Summary

Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly validate the JSON Web Token (JWT) role-bound audience claim when using the Vault JWT auth method. This may have resulted in Vault validating a JWT the audience and role-bound claims do not match, allowing an invalid login to succeed when it should have been rejected. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-5798, was fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.0, 1.16.3, and 1.15.9

Affected Version(s)

Vault < 1.16.2

Vault Enterprise < 1.16.2

CVSS V3.1

Score:
2.6
Severity:
LOW
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
None
Availability:
None
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Changed

Timeline

  • Risk change from: null to: 2.6 - (LOW)

  • Vulnerability published.

Collectors

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