hashicorp/vault · Security
Vault Community Edition privilege escalation vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5j
- CVE ID
- CVE-2024-9180
- Severity
- high
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 7.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 7.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v4
- 8.6 · CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their 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
CWEs
- CWE-266 · Incorrect Privilege Assignment
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9180 ↗
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-21-vault-operators-in-root-namespace-may-elevate-their-privileges/70565 ↗
- https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-3191 ↗
- https://openbao.org/docs/release-notes/2-0-0/#203 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5j ↗