Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to bypass authentication. Fixed in Vault 1.15.5 and 1.14.10.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-2048

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 8.1

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

Affected Products

Vendor: HashiCorp

Product: Vault

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.04% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 11.98% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-03-14 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-05-vault-cert-auth-method-did-not-correctly-validate-non-ca-certificates/63382
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0009/

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