Hashicorp Vault has Login MFA Rate Limit Bypass Vulnerability
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Affected versions
1.10.0 → fixed in 1.20.1
Details
Vault and Vault Enterprise’s (“Vault”) login MFA rate limits could be bypassed and TOTP tokens could be reused. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.20.1 and Vault Enterprise 1.20.1, 1.19.7, 1.18.12, and 1.16.23.
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.