CVE-2021-45042

Summary

CVECVE-2021-45042
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-12-17 14:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-08 21:42:00 UTC
DescriptionIn HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.7.7, 1.8.x before 1.8.6, and 1.9.x before 1.9.1, clusters using the Integrated Storage backend allowed an authenticated user (with write permissions to a kv secrets engine) to cause a panic and denial of service of the storage backend. The earliest affected version is 1.4.0.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-noinfo

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault 1.9.0 All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault 1.9.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HCSEC2-21-33 - Vault’s KV Secrets Engine With Integrated Storage Exposed to Authenticated Denial of Service - Security - HashiCorp Discuss MISC discuss.hashicorp.com
HashiCorp Blog: Vault MISC www.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)
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