CVE-2022-40186
CRITICALHashiCorp Vault < 1.9.9 and 1.11.0-1.11.3 - Authorization Bypass via Entity Alias Metadata Overwrite
Title source: llmDescription
An issue was discovered in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.11.3. A vulnerability in the Identity Engine was found where, in a deployment where an entity has multiple mount accessors with shared alias names, Vault may overwrite metadata to the wrong alias due to an issue with checking the proper alias assigned to an entity. This may allow for unintended access to key/value paths using that metadata in Vault.
References (3)
Core 3
Core References
Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com
Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221111-0008/
Scores
CVSS v3
9.1
EPSS
0.0076
EPSS Percentile
50.6%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
total
Details
CWE
CWE-639
Status
published
Products (2)
hashicorp/vault
1.11.0 - 1.11.3Go
hashicorp/vault
1.8.0 - 1.9.9 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Sep 22, 2022
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026