#VU66119 Improper access control in Vault and Vault Enterprise - CVE-2022-36129

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#VU66119 Improper access control in Vault and Vault Enterprise - CVE-2022-36129

Published: August 4, 2022


Vulnerability identifier: #VU66119
Vulnerability risk: Medium
CVSSv4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-36129
CWE-ID: CWE-284
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Vault
Vault Enterprise
Software vendor:
HashiCorp

Description

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.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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