Vulnerability · Published Dec 17, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-45042
Medium 4.9
In plain English
A medium-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.5% (higher than 74% of all known vulnerabilities).
Severity (CVSS NVD)4.9Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)1.5%top 26.4% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known
Official description
In 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.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault x_refsource_MISC
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec2-21-33-vault-s-kv-secrets-engine-with-integrated-storage-exposed-to-authenticated-denial-of-service/33157 x_refsource_MISC
- GLSA-202207-01 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_GENTOO