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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2023-0665 json

Vault PKI Issuer Endpoint Did Not Correctly Authorize Access to Issuer Metadata

published 2023-03-30 3 y ago modified 2026-09-10 1 mo ago also BIT-vault-2023-0665 , EUVD-2023-1040 , GHSA-hwc3-3qh6-r4gg , GO-2023-1708

cvss
6.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 26%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

HashiCorp Vault's PKI mount issuer endpoints did not correctly authorize access to remove an issuer or modify issuer metadata, potentially resulting in denial of service of the PKI mount. This bug did not affect public or private key material, trust chains or certificate issuance. Fixed in Vault 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.11.9, 1.12.5, 1.13.1
  • bitnami vault 1.11.9, 1.12.5, 1.13.1
  • HashiCorp Vault 1.11.9, 1.12.5, 1.13.1
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.11.9, 1.12.5, 1.13.1

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-2023-0665 updated cvss 6.5

hashicorp/vault: Vault’s PKI Issuer Endpoint Did Not Correctly Authorize Access to Issuer Metadata

  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/cephcsi-rhel8, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator, ocs4/rook-ceph-rhel8-operator
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/odr-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-multicluster-rhel9-operator
    affected: no fix available, no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 openshift4/ose-installer v4.13.0-202305091542.p0.g44db7b2.assembly.stream
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:1326
  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 openshift4/ose-installer v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g03546e5.assembly.stream
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:5006
  • Red Hat RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9 odf4/odf-rhel9-operator v4.13.0-24, odf4/rook-ceph-rhel9-operator v4.13.0-70
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2023:3742
  • Red Hat Logging Subsystem for Red Hat OpenShift openshift-logging/logging-loki-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13 openshift4/ose-cli v4.13.0-202304190216.p0.g92b1a3d.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-pod v4.13.0-202304211155.p0.gb404935.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-etcd v4.13.0-202304190216.p0.gf70da9d.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-tests v4.13.0-202305031828.p0.g893ae57.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-console v4.13.0-202305031828.p0.ga551d28.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-coredns v4.13.0-202304190216.p0.g5560e4a.assembly.stream, +174 more Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14 rhcos 414.92.202310210434-0, openshift4/ose-cli v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g0c63f9d.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-pod v4.14.0-202310210404.p0.gf67aeb3.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-tests v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.g948001a.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-console v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.gc16ab01.assembly.stream, openshift4/ose-coredns v4.14.0-202310201027.p0.gfd70cf1.assembly.stream, +180 more Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator Red Hat RHODF 4.13 for RHEL 9 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9 v4.13.0-35, odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9 v4.13.0-17, odf4/mcg-core-rhel9 v4.13.0-41, odf4/odf-console-rhel9 v4.13.0-85, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator v4.13.0-41, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator v4.13.0-67, +16 more
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
20 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
GitHub 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/vault
<1.11.9
>=1.12.0, <1.12.5
>=1.13.0, <1.13.1
1.11.9
1.12.5
1.13.1
bitnami vault
<1.11.9
>=1.12.0, <1.12.5
>=1.13.0, <1.13.1
1.11.9
1.12.5
1.13.1

Affected products

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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