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CVE-2024-9180
Vault Operators in Root Namespace May Elevate Their Privileges
High7.2EPSS 0.53%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- HashiCorp
Description
A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s 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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| HashiCorpCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| NVDNVD · Analyzed | 3.1 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.53% · top 55% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected 0.10.4 – < 1.18.0
- affected 0.10.4 – < 1.18.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- Gogithub.com/hashicorp/vaultGHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5j (opens in a new tab)
- Gogithub.com/openbao/openbaoGHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5j (opens in a new tab)
References (1)
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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