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Fencer Vulns
high 7.2

CVE-2024-9180 json

Vault Operators in Root Namespace May Elevate Their Privileges

published 2024-10-10 2 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-openbao-2024-9180 , BIT-vault-2024-9180 , EUVD-2024-3134 , GHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5j , GO-2024-3191

cvss
7.2
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 44%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.18.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.0, 1.17.7, 1.16.11, and 1.15.16.

Patch / fix

  • go github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.18.0
  • go github.com/openbao/openbao 2.0.3
  • bitnami openbao 2.0.3
  • bitnami vault 1.18.0
  • HashiCorp Vault 1.15.16, 1.16.11, 1.17.7, 1.18.0
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 1.15.16, 1.16.10, 1.17.7, 1.18.0
  • govulncheck-vulndb SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP6, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP5, openSUSE Leap 15.6 +1 more 0.0.20241030T212825-150000.1.9.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2024:3911-1

  • govulncheck-vulndb Package Hub 12 0.0.20241104T154416-5.1
  • govulncheck-vulndb openSUSE Tumbleweed 0.0.20241030T212825-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:0350-1openSUSE-SU-2024:14447-1

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-2024-9180 updated cvss 7.2

hashicorp/vault: Vault Operators in Root Namespace May Elevate Their Privileges

  • 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: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/cephcsi-rhel9, odf4/mcg-cli-rhel9, odf4/odf-cli-rhel9, odf4/mcg-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

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
total
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GitHub 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
go github.com/hashicorp/vault
<1.18.0
1.18.0
go github.com/openbao/openbao
<2.0.3
2.0.3
bitnami openbao
<2.0.3
2.0.3
bitnami vault
>=1.7.7, <1.18.0
1.18.0

Affected products

  • HashiCorp Vault
  • HashiCorp Vault Enterprise

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-266 Incorrect Privilege Assignment

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.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.