Skip to content
Fencer Vulns
critical 9.8

CVE-2024-55225 json

Vaultwarden vulnerable to user impersonation

published 2025-01-09 21 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also GHSA-x7m9-mv49-fv73 , EUVD-2025-0052

cvss
9.8
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.6%
EPSS 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 50%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue in the component src/api/identity.rs of Vaultwarden prior to v1.32.5 allows attackers to impersonate users, including Administrators, via a crafted authorization request.

Patch / fix

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-2024-55225 updated cvss 4.8

vaultwarden: Vaultwarden: Authentication bypass allows user impersonation via crafted authorization request

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    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
yes
Technical impact
total
Assessed
21 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.62% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 50% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CISA ADP 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CNA 3.1 9.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
crates.io vaultwarden
<1.32.5
1.32.5

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions
  • CWE-863 Incorrect Authorization

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.