A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in Hashicorp Vault and Vault Enterprise up to 1.2.4/1.3.7/1.4.3/1.5.0. Affected is an unknown code of the component GCP GCE Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.8.3 and newer, when configured with the GCP GCE auth method, may be vulnerable to authentication bypass. Fixed in 1.2.5, 1.3.8, 1.4.4, and 1.5.1.

The weakness was published 08/26/2020. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2020-16251 since 07/31/2020. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 1.2.5, 1.3.8, 1.4.4 or 1.5.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

Similar entry is available at 160289.

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• Hashicorp

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• Vault
• Vault Enterprise

Version

• 1.0
• 1.1
• 1.2
• 1.2.0
• 1.2.1
• 1.2.2
• 1.2.3
• 1.2.4
• 1.3
• 1.3.0
• 1.3.1
• 1.3.2
• 1.3.3
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.5
• 1.3.6
• 1.3.7
• 1.4
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.5

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• open-source

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