Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Overview github.com/hashicorp/vault/http is an a tool for securely accessing secrets. Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the HandlerFunc and ReKey related operations in http/handler.go and vault/core.go. An attacker can...

Vault Denial of Service Though Complex JSON Payloads

Summary A malicious user may submit a specially-crafted complex payload that otherwise meets the default request size limit which results in excessive memory and CPU consumption of Vault. This may lead to a timeout in Vault’s auditing subroutine, potentially resulting in the Vault server to becom...

Brute Force

Overview Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Brute Force due to validating the provided TOTP code during login MFA. An attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive data by bypassing internal rate limiting and reusing existing TOTP codes by including whitespace in the TOTP...

Vault Root Namespace Operator May Elevate Token Privileges

Summary A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s token privileges to Vault’s root policy. This vulnerability, identified as CVE-2025-5999, is fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.0 and Vault Enterprise...

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

Summary 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...

Vault's LDAP Auth Method Allows for User Enumeration

Summary The Vault and Vault Enterprise “Vault” LDAP auth method allows unauthenticated users to potentially enumerate valid accounts in the configured LDAP system by observing the response error when querying usernames. This vulnerability, CVE-2023-3462, is fixed in Vault 1.14.1 and 1.13.5...

PT-2022-17174 · Hashicorp · Vault Enterprise +1

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 1.8.0 through 1.8.8 Vault and Vault Enterprise version 1.9.3 Description: The issue allowed the PKI secrets engine to issue wildcard certificates to authorized users for a specified domain, even if the PKI...

PYSEC-2021-853

vault-cli is a configurable command-line interface tool and python library to interact with Hashicorp Vault. In versions before 3.0.0 vault-cli features the ability for rendering templated values. When a secret starts with the prefix !template!, vault-cli interprets the rest of the contents of th...

Vault’s Cassandra Integrations Did Not Validate TLS Certificates

Summary Vault and Vault Enterprise “Vault” Cassandra integrations, a Vault storage backend and database secrets engine plugin, did not validate TLS certificates when connecting to Cassandra clusters. This vulnerability, CVE-2021-27400, was fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.6.4 and 1.7.1...

Vault API Endpoint Allowed Enumeration of Secrets Engine Mount Paths Without Authentication

Summary Vault and Vault Enterprise “Vault” allowed the enumeration of Secrets Engine mount paths via unauthenticated HTTP requests. This vulnerability, CVE-2020-25594, was fixed in Vault 1.6.2 & 1.5.7. Background Vault operators are able to mount Secrets Engines at customizable paths. Secrets...

Vault Proxy Environment Variable Was Logged to STDOUT

Summary Vault and Vault Enterprise “Vault” logged proxy environment variables that potentially included sensitive credentials. This vulnerability, CVE-2020-13223, was fixed in Vault 1.3.6 and 1.4.2. Background Vault respects the HTTPPROXY and HTTPSPROXY environment variables. Details When HTTPPRO...