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CVE-2021-43998 json

HashiCorp Vault Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

published 4y ago modified 2mo ago also BIT-vault-2021-43998 , EUVD-2021-2560 , GHSA-pfmw-vj74-ph8g , GO-2022-0611

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 0.11.0 up to 1.7.5 and 1.8.4 templated ACL policies would always match the first-created entity alias if multiple entity aliases exist for a specified entity and mount combination, potentially resulting in incorrect policy enforcement. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.7.6, 1.8.5, and 1.9.0.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.7.6, 1.8.5
  • bitnami vault 1.7.6, 1.8.5
  • vault Arch Linux 1.9.0-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2294

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red hat product security vex CVE-2021-43998 updated cvss 6.5

vault: incorrect policy enforcement

  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 openshift4/ztp-site-generate-rhel8 v4.13.0-45, openshift4/baremetal-hardware-event-proxy-rhel8 v4.13.0-21, openshift4/bare-metal-event-relay-rhel8-operator v4.13.0-42, openshift4/bare-metal-event-relay-operator-bundle v4.13.0-39, openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-precache-rhel8 v4.13.0-45, openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-recovery-rhel8 v4.13.0-43, +2 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:2138
  • Red Hat RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9 odf4/odf-rhel9-operator v4.13.0-24, odf4/rook-ceph-rhel9-operator v4.13.0-70
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3742
  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-installer Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/odr-rhel8-operator Red Hat RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9 v4.13.0-35, odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9 v4.13.0-17, odf4/mcg-core-rhel9 v4.13.0-41, odf4/odf-console-rhel9 v4.13.0-85, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator v4.13.0-41, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator v4.13.0-67, +16 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/vault
>=0.11.0, <1.7.6
>=1.8.0, <1.8.5
1.7.6
1.8.5
bitnami vault
>=0.11.0, <1.7.6
>=1.8.4, <1.8.5
1.7.6
1.8.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

References

Sources

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