HashiCorp Vault/Vault Enterprise up to 1.17.6 privileges assignment

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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise. Impacted is an unknown function. The manipulation leads to privileges assignment. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2024-9180. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no available exploit. It is advisable to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a privileges assignment vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-266. A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at discuss.hashicorp.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-9180 since 09/25/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1068 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 210390 (SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : govulncheck-vulndb (SUSE-SU-2024:3911-1)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 1.18.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (210390). 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

• 1.2.5
• 1.3.4
• 1.3.6
• 1.3.7
• 1.3.8
• 1.4.0
• 1.4.1
• 1.4.2
• 1.4.3
• 1.4.4
• 1.5.0
• 1.5.1
• 1.5.6
• 1.5.7
• 1.5.8
• 1.5.9
• 1.6.0
• 1.6.1
• 1.6.2
• 1.6.3
• 1.6.4
• 1.6.5
• 1.6.6
• 1.7.0
• 1.7.1
• 1.7.2
• 1.7.3
• 1.7.4
• 1.7.5
• 1.7.6
• 1.7.7
• 1.8.0
• 1.8.3
• 1.8.4
• 1.8.5
• 1.8.6
• 1.9.0
• 1.9.1
• 1.9.10
• 1.10.0
• 1.10.1
• 1.10.2
• 1.10.3
• 1.10.6
• 1.10.7
• 1.10.11
• 1.11.3
• 1.11.4
• 1.11.7
• 1.11.8
• 1.11.9
• 1.12.0
• 1.12.3
• 1.12.4
• 1.12.5
• 1.12.11
• 1.13.0
• 1.13.1
• 1.13.5
• 1.13.7
• 1.13.8
• 1.13.9
• 1.13.10
• 1.14.0
• 1.14.1
• 1.14.3
• 1.14.4
• 1.14.5
• 1.14.6
• 1.14.10
• 1.15
• 1.15.0
• 1.15.1
• 1.15.2
• 1.15.4
• 1.15.15
• 1.16.0
• 1.16.9
• 1.16.10
• 1.17.5
• 1.17.6

License

• open-source

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