CVE-2020-10661: HashiCorp Vault Improper Privilege Management

January 30, 2024 (updated September 16, 2024)

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.11.0 through 1.3.3 may, under certain circumstances, have existing nested-path policies grant access to Namespaces created after-the-fact. Fixed in 1.3.4.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-j6vv-vv26-rh7c
github.com/hashicorp/vault
github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/18485ee9d4352ac8e8396c580b5941ccf8e5b31a
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10661
www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault

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