Improper Authentication in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2024-5798

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Improper Authentication in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2024-5798

Published: July 25, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU94720
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 1.8 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:H/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-5798
CWE-ID: CWE-287
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote privileged user to bypass authentication process.

The vulnerability exists due to Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly validate the JSON Web Token (JWT) role-bound audience claim when using the Vault JWT auth method. A remote privileged user can 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-2024-5798

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vault Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.15.9, 1.16.3, 1.17.0
Vault - addressed in versions 1.15.9, 1.16.3, 1.17.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.6.0

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