#VU66116 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2021-45042

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#VU66116 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Vault Enterprise and Vault - CVE-2021-45042

Published: August 4, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU66116
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-45042
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Vault Enterprise
Vault
Software vendor:
HashiCorp

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly impose security restrictions in clusters using the Integrated Storage backend. A remote user with write permissions to a kv secrets engine can cause a panic and denial of service of the storage backend.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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