HashiCorp Vault/Vault Enterprise up to 1.9.9/1.10.6/1.11.3 TLS Certificate certificate validation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise up to 1.9.9/1.10.6/1.11.3. The affected element is an unknown function of the component TLS Certificate Handler. The manipulation leads to certificate validation. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2022-41316. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise up to 1.9.9/1.10.6/1.11.3. This issue affects some unknown processing of the component TLS Certificate Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise’s TLS certificate auth method did not initially load the optionally configured CRL issued by the role's CA into memory on startup, resulting in the revocation list not being checked if the CRL has not yet been retrieved. Fixed in 1.12.0, 1.11.4, 1.10.7, and 1.9.10.

The weakness was published 10/13/2022. It is possible to read the advisory at discuss.hashicorp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2022-41316 since 09/23/2022. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1587.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Upgrading to version 1.9.10, 1.10.7, 1.11.4 or 1.12.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2023-2017). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• HashiCorp

Name

• Vault
• Vault Enterprise

Version

• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.2
• 1.9.3
• 1.9.4
• 1.9.5
• 1.9.6
• 1.9.7
• 1.9.8
• 1.9.9
• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.4
• 1.10.5
• 1.10.6
• 1.11.0
• 1.11.1
• 1.11.2
• 1.11.3

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• open-source

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