CVE-2024-9180: Vault Community Edition privilege escalation vulnerability

October 10, 2024 (updated October 18, 2024)

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.18.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.0, 1.17.7, 1.16.11, and 1.15.16

References

discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-21-vault-operators-in-root-namespace-may-elevate-their-privileges/70565
github.com/advisories/GHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5j
github.com/hashicorp/vault
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9180
pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-3191

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