CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-45042
4.9 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-12-17
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.9 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C
Description
In HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.7.7, 1.8.x before 1.8.6, and 1.9.x before 1.9.1, clusters using the Integrated Storage backend allowed an authenticated user (with write permissions to a kv secrets engine) to cause a panic and denial of service of the storage backend. The earliest affected version is 1.4.0.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.4.0 < 1.7.7)
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.8.0 < 1.8.6)
• hashicorp vault 1.9.0
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec2-21-33-vault-s-kv-secrets-engine-with-integrated-storage-exposed-to-authenticated-denial-of-service/33157 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault Product, Vendor Advisory
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec2-21-33-vault-s-kv-secrets-engine-with-integrated-storage-exposed-to-authenticated-denial-of-service/33157 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault Product, Vendor Advisory