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Fencer Vulns
critical 9.1

CVE-2020-10661 json

HashiCorp Vault Improper Privilege Management

published 2020-03-23 6 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-vault-2020-10661 , EUVD-2024-0375 , GHSA-j6vv-vv26-rh7c , GO-2024-2485

cvss
9.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.1%
EPSS 1.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 66%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.11.0 through 1.3.3 may, under certain circumstances, have existing nested-path policies grant access to Namespaces created after-the-fact. Fixed in 1.3.4.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.3.4
  • bitnami vault 1.3.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2020-10661 updated cvss 9.1

vault: Existing nested-path policies grant access to Namespaces created after-the-fact

  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-must-gather-rhel8, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-installer, openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator, odf4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator, odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator
    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

1.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 66% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

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 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 5.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
OSV 3.1 9.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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, <1.3.4
1.3.4
bitnami vault
>=0.11.0, <1.3.4
1.3.4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management

References

Sources

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