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CVE-2024-2048

hashicorp/vault: Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates

Published Modified CWE 295
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Bitnami9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Bitnami. Rated lower by GHSA (high), Red Hat (high).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
bitnami::Bitnami Vulnerability Databasevault1.16.0
chainguardk3d, vault-1.165.6.0-r11 and 1 more
go::GitHub Security Advisory Gogithub.com/hashicorp/vault1.15.5, 1.14.10
wolfik3d5.6.0-r11
Show all 5 entries from 4 sources
SourcePackageFixed in
bitnami::Bitnami Vulnerability Databasevault1.16.0
chainguardk3d5.6.0-r11
chainguardvault-1.160
go::GitHub Security Advisory Gogithub.com/hashicorp/vault1.15.5, 1.14.10
wolfik3d5.6.0-r11

References

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