CVE-2021-41802

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-41802
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-08 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-08 21:48:00 UTC
DescriptionHashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise through 1.7.4 and 1.8.3 allowed a user with write permission to an entity alias ID sharing a mount accessor with another user to acquire this other user’s policies by merging their identities. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.7.5 and 1.8.4.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-732

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HCSEC-2021-27 - Vault Merging Multiple Entity Aliases for the Same Mount May Allow Privilege Escalation - Security - HashiCorp Discuss MISC discuss.hashicorp.com
HashiCorp Vault: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202207-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 710575 Gentoo Linux HashiCorp Vault Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202207-01)
  • 980400 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-qv95-g3gm-x542)
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