SB2022080438 - Denial of service in HashiCorp Vault
Published: August 4, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022080438
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper access control (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36129)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper access restrictions to the /sys/storage/raft/join API endpoint. A remote attacker can modifying the voter_status parameter and change the voter status of each node in a cluster and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack against the high availability cluster.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.