Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2024-9180

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Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2024-9180

Published: October 12, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU98425
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-9180
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges within the application.

The vulnerability exists due to the mishandling of entries in Vault’s in-memory entity cache. A remote privileged Vault operator can manipulate their cached entity record through the identity API endpoint on a Vault node, potentially escalating their privileges to Vault’s root policy on this node.


Affected software

Vault Enterprise
Vault
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps

How to mitigate CVE-2024-9180

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vault Enterprise - addressed in versions 1.15.16, 1.16.11, 1.17.7, 1.18.0
Vault - update to 1.18.0
IBM Cloud Pak for Watson AIOps - update to 4.8.1

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