CVE-2024-9180
HIGH7.2EPSS 0.30%Vault Operators in Root Namespace May Elevate Their Privileges
Published: 10/10/2024Modified: 8/5/2025
Description
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.
Affected packages (4)
- Bitnami/vault>= 1.7.7, < 1.18.0
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/vaultfrom 0, < 1.18.0
- Go/github.com/hashicorp/vaultfrom 0, < 1.18.0
- Go/github.com/openbao/openbaofrom 0, < 2.0.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.2 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (6)
- ADVISORYhttps://github.com/advisories/GHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5j
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-9180
- PATCHhttps://github.com/hashicorp/vault
- WEBhttps://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-21-vault-operators-in-root-namespace-may-elevate-their-privileges/70565
- WEBhttps://openbao.org/docs/release-notes/2-0-0/#203
- WEBhttps://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-3191