Improper authentication in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2024-2048

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Improper authentication in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2024-2048

Published: March 4, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU87103
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 9.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2048
CWE-ID: CWE-287
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to bypass authentication process.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of client TLS certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted certificate file to bypass authentication process and gain unauthorized access to the application.


Affected software

Vault Enterprise
Vault
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps

How to mitigate CVE-2024-2048

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vault Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.14.10, 1.15.5
Vault - addressed in versions 1.14.10, 1.15.5
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.5.0

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