CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-43998
6.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-11-30
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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 0.11.0 up to 1.7.5 and 1.8.4 templated ACL policies would always match the first-created entity alias if multiple entity aliases exist for a specified entity and mount combination, potentially resulting in incorrect policy enforcement. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.7.6, 1.8.5, and 1.9.0.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vault (>= 0.11.0 <= 1.7.5)
• hashicorp vault 1.8.4
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-30-vaults-templated-acl-policies-matched-first-created-alias-per-entity-and-auth-backend/32132 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-30-vaults-templated-acl-policies-matched-first-created-alias-per-entity-and-auth-backend/32132 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 Third Party Advisory