Improper access control in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2022-36129
Published: August 4, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU66119
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36129
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
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.
Affected software
Vault Enterprise
Vault
Vault
How to mitigate CVE-2022-36129
Install updates from vendor's website.
Vault Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.9.8, 1.10.5, 1.11.1
Vault - addressed in versions 1.9.8, 1.10.5, 1.11.1
Vault - addressed in versions 1.9.8, 1.10.5, 1.11.1