CVE-2022-40186 is a critical vulnerability affecting HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions prior to 1.11.3. This flaw in the Identity Engine could lead to metadata overwrites for aliases, potentially granting unintended access to key/value paths. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), it is a network-exploitable vulnerability with low attack complexity, allowing for high confidentiality and integrity impacts without user interaction. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 1.8.0, < 1.9.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.8.0, < 1.9.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.10.0, < 1.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.10.0, < 1.10.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.11.0, < 1.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.