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Incorrect Privilege Assignment

CVE-2024-9180

High
7.2/10

Summary

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace's identity endpoint could escalate their privileges to Vault's root policy. This issue affect github.com/hashicorp/vault versions v0.10.4 through 1.17.6.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • HIGH
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • HIGH
  • HIGH

CWE-266 - Incorrect Privilege Assignment

A product incorrectly assigns a privilege to a particular actor, creating an unintended sphere of control for that actor.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published