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Fencer Vulns
high 7.4

CVE-2021-32923 json

Invalid session token expiration

published 2021-06-03 5 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-vault-2021-32923 , EUVD-2021-1251 , GHSA-38j9-7pp9-2hjw , GO-2022-0623

cvss
7.4
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.4%
EPSS 1.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 72%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise allowed the renewal of nearly-expired token leases and dynamic secret leases (specifically, those within 1 second of their maximum TTL), which caused them to be incorrectly treated as non-expiring during subsequent use. Fixed in 1.5.9, 1.6.5, and 1.7.2.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.5.9, 1.6.5, 1.7.2
  • bitnami vault 1.5.9, 1.6.5, 1.7.2
  • hashicorp vault 1.5.9, 1.6.5, 1.7.2
  • vault Alpine 3.13 1.5.9-r0
  • vault Alpine 3.18, Alpine 3.17, Alpine 3.16 +2 more 1.7.2-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2021-32923

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • vault Arch Linux 1.7.2-1

arch linux advisories AVG-2029

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-2021-32923 updated cvss 6.5

vault: Token leases incorrectly treated as non-expiring

  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    under investigation
  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 2.0 servicemesh, servicemesh-mixc, servicemesh-mixs, servicemesh-istioctl, servicemesh-pilot-agent, servicemesh-pilot-discovery Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 vault 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/odr-rhel8-operator, odf4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator, +1 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

1.38% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 72% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
GitHub 3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/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 7.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/vault
>=1.7.0, <1.7.2
>=1.6.0, <1.6.5
>=0.10.0, <1.5.9
1.7.2
1.6.5
1.5.9
bitnami vault
>=0.10.0, <1.5.9
>=1.6.0, <1.6.5
>=1.7.0, <1.7.2
1.5.9
1.6.5
1.7.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-613 DEPRECATED: Insufficient Session Expiration

References

Sources

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