Three Cloud-First Akamai Initiatives to Support Your Cloud Journey

61% of organizations plan to focus on cloud migration this year. 93% have a multi-cloud strategy.1 This means that on average your organization is using 2.2 public clouds, multiplying your complexity and your costs. While the cloud has delivered on a lot of promises, it isn't getting simpler or...

Enter the Vault: Authentication Issues in HashiCorp Vault

Posted by Felix Wilhelm, Project Zero Introduction In this blog post I'll discuss two vulnerabilities in HashiCorp Vault and its integration with Amazon Web Services AWS and Google Cloud Platform GCP. These issues can lead to an authentication bypass in configurations that use the aws and gcp aut...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4489-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Authorization Bypass

github.com/hashicorp/vault is vulnerable to authentication bypass. The vulnerability exists because values Vault used in GCP GCE Auth Method for validation of GCE VMs can be manipulated and bypassed...

CVE-2020-16251

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...

CVE-2020-16251

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...

Authentication flaw

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...

CVE-2020-16251

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...

CVE-2020-16251

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...

CVE-2020-16251

CVE-2020-16251 affects HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.8.3 and newer when configured with the GCP GCE auth method. The issue allows authentication bypass due to a flaw in the GCP authentication flow. Fixed in Vault/Vault Enterprise releases 1.2.5, 1.3.8, 1.4.4, and 1.5.1. The avai...

CVE-2020-16251

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...

PT-2020-14843

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.8.3 through 1.2.4 HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 1.3.0 through 1.3.7 HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 1.4.0 through 1.4.3 HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions...

CVE-2020-16251: Improper Authentication

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...

USN-4440-1: linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the network block device nbd implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check for error conditions in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-16089 It was discovered that the kernel-user space relay...

USN-4414-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the network block device nbd implementation in the Linux kernel did not properly check for error conditions in some situations. An attacker could possibly use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2019-16089 It was discovered that the btrfs file system...

USN-4412-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

Matthew Sheets discovered that the SELinux network label handling implementation in the Linux kernel could be coerced into de-referencing a NULL pointer. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service system crash. CVE-2020-10711 It was discovered that the SCSI generic sg driver in...

USN-4411-1: Linux kernel vulnerabilities

It was discovered that the elf handling code in the Linux kernel did not initialize memory before using it in certain situations. A local attacker could use this to possibly expose sensitive information kernel memory. CVE-2020-10732 Matthew Sheets discovered that the SELinux network label handlin...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-4411-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Insecure Access Control

github.com/hashicorp/vault-plugin-secrets-gcp uses an insecure access control. Service account keys does not honor the secret engines configured with default TTL, allowing an attacker to gain unauthorized access...

CVE-2020-12757

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.0 and 1.4.1, when configured with the GCP Secrets Engine, may incorrectly generate GCP Credentials with the default time-to-live lease duration instead of the engine-configured setting. This may lead to generated GCP credentials being valid for longer than...