Root Privileges Escalation Vulnerability in Vault

CVE-2024-9180
7.2HIGH

Key Information

Vendor
Hashicorp
Status
Vault
Vault Enterprise
Vendor
CVE Published:
10 October 2024

Summary

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.18.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.0, 1.17.7, 1.16.11, and 1.15.16.

Affected Version(s)

Vault < 1.18.0

Vault Enterprise < 1.18.0

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.2
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Risk change from: null to: 7.2 - (HIGH)

  • Vulnerability published.

Collectors

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