CVE-2024-2048 Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates

2024-03-0419:56:47

CWE-295

HashiCorp

www.cve.org

cve-2024-2048

vault

enterprise

authentication

tls

vulnerability

patch

8.1 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

8.1 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

9.2%

JSON

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to bypass authentication. Fixed in Vault 1.15.5 and 1.14.10.

CNA Affected

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    ],
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    "repo": "https://github.com/hashicorp/vault",
    "vendor": "HashiCorp",
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