CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-41802
5.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-10-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 2.9 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 5.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
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.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vault (< 1.7.5)
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.8.0 < 1.8.4)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-27-vault-merging-multiple-entity-aliases-for-the-same-mount-may-allow-privilege-escalation/ Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-27-vault-merging-multiple-entity-aliases-for-the-same-mount-may-allow-privilege-escalation/ Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 Third Party Advisory