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Fencer Vulns
medium 4.2

CVE-2023-3775 json

Vault Enterprise's Sentinel RGP Policies Allowed For Cross-Namespace Denial of Service

published 2023-09-28 3 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-vault-2023-3775 , EUVD-2023-44408

cvss
4.2
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.5%
EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 45%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A Vault Enterprise Sentinel Role Governing Policy created by an operator to restrict access to resources in one namespace can be applied to requests outside in another non-descendant namespace, potentially resulting in denial of service. Fixed in Vault Enterprise 1.15.0, 1.14.4, 1.13.8.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami vault 1.13.8, 1.14.4
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.13.0, 1.13.8, 1.14.4

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-2023-3775 updated cvss 4.2

hashicorp/vault: vault enterprise’s sentinel RGP policies allowed for cross-namespace denial of service

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 openshift4/ose-installer-rhel9 v4.17.0-202409122204.p0.gdfd4c08.assembly.stream.el9
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2024:3718
  • Red Hat cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift cert-manager/jetstack-cert-manager-rhel9 Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines openshift-pipelines-client Red Hat OpenShift Serverless openshift-serverless-1/client-kn-rhel8, openshift-serverless-1-tech-preview/eventing-kafka-broker-webhook-rhel8 Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 rhceph/rhceph-5-dashboard-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-contour-rhel8, openshift4/topology-aware-lifecycle-manager-rhel8-operator Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 rhcos 417.94.202409121747-0, openshift4/frr-rhel9 v4.17.0-202409100034.p0.g377d02f.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-cli-rhel9 v4.17.0-202409111134.p0.gbc58b3a.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-pod-rhel9 v4.17.0-202409121706.p0.gd3adea4.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-etcd-rhel9 v4.17.0-202409100034.p0.g1fb3165.assembly.stream.el9, openshift4/ose-tests-rhel9 v4.17.0-202409130304.p0.g08f2f5f.assembly.stream.el9, +182 more
    +4 more products
    Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 mcg, ocs4/mcg-rhel8-operator, ocs4/ocs-rhel8-operator Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 mcg, odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9, odf4/mcg-rhel9-operator, odf4/ocs-rhel9-operator, odf4/odf-rhel8-operator, +4 more Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS) rhods/odh-ml-pipelines-cache-rhel8 Red Hat OpenShift GitOps openshift-gitops-1/kam-delivery-rhel8
    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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 45% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 4.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami vault
>=0.11.0, <1.13.8
>=1.14.0, <1.14.4
1.13.8
1.14.4

Affected products

  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

References

Sources

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