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Hashicorp Vault Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Low severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 12, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 29, 2023

Package

gomod github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go)

Affected versions

< 1.7.5
>= 1.8.0, < 1.8.4

Patched versions

1.7.5
1.8.4

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise through 1.7.4 and 1.8.3 allowed a user with write permission to an entity alias ID sharing a mount accessor with another user to acquire this other user’s policies by merging their identities. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.7.5 and 1.8.4.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Oct 8, 2021
Reviewed Oct 11, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 12, 2021
Last updated Jan 29, 2023

Severity

Low
2.9
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Adjacent
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N

CVE ID

CVE-2021-41802

GHSA ID

GHSA-qv95-g3gm-x542

Source code

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