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Low · 2.9 CVE-2021-41802 BIT-vault-2021-41802EUVD-2021-2251GHSA-qv95-g3gm-x542GO-2022-0618

Hashicorp Vault Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Published Oct 8, 2021 · Updated Aug 4, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

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.

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling k3d +2 5.6.0-r11 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault < 1.7.5 1.7.5 GHSA-qv95-g3gm-x542
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.4 1.8.4 GHSA-qv95-g3gm-x542
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault < 1.7.5 · >= 1.8.0, < 1.8.4 1.7.5, 1.8.4 GO-2022-0618

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