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Critical· 9.1GHSA-7cgv-v83v-rr87 CVE-2022-40186CWE-639Published Sep 23, 2022

HashiCorp Vault vulnerable to incorrect metadata access

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Affected versions

1.11.0 → fixed in 1.11.31.10.0 → fixed in 1.10.61.8.0 → fixed in 1.9.9

Details

An issue was discovered in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.11.3. A vulnerability in the Identity Engine was found where, in a deployment where an entity has multiple mount accessors with shared alias names, Vault may overwrite metadata to the wrong alias due to an issue with checking the proper alias assigned to an entity. This may allow for unintended access to key/value paths using that metadata in Vault.

The fix

No fix commit could be resolved for this advisory (it may reference an issue tracker or a non-GitHub patch). See the references below.

References