CVE-2022-40186

Published on: Not Yet Published

Last Modified on: 01/20/2023 01:20:00 PM UTC

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Certain versions of Vault from Hashicorp contain the following vulnerability:

An issue was discovered in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.11.3. A vulnerability in the Identity Engine was found where, in a deployment where an entity has multiple mount accessors with shared alias names, Vault may overwrite metadata to the wrong alias due to an issue with checking the proper alias assigned to an entity. This may allow for unintended access to key/value paths using that metadata in Vault.

  • CVE-2022-40186 has been assigned by URL Logo [email protected] to track the vulnerability - currently rated as CRITICAL severity.

CVSS3 Score: 9.1 - CRITICAL

Attack
Vector
Attack
Complexity
Privileges
Required
User
Interaction
NETWORK LOW NONE NONE
Scope Confidentiality
Impact
Integrity
Impact
Availability
Impact
UNCHANGED HIGH HIGH NONE

CVE References

Description Tags Link
CVE-2022-40186 HashiCorp Vault Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security security.netapp.com
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URL Logo CONFIRM security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221111-0008/
HashiCorp Discuss discuss.hashicorp.com
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URL Logo MISC discuss.hashicorp.com
HCSEC-2022-18 - Vault Entity Alias Metadata May Leak Between Aliases With The Same Name Assigned To The Same Entity - Security - HashiCorp Discuss discuss.hashicorp.com
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URL Logo MISC discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-18-vault-entity-alias-metadata-may-leak-between-aliases-with-the-same-name-assigned-to-the-same-entity/44550

Known Affected Configurations (CPE V2.3)

Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language
ApplicationHashicorpVaultAllAllAllAll
ApplicationHashicorpVaultAllAllAllAll
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*:
  • cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*:

Social Mentions

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