CVE-2024-2048 is a critical vulnerability affecting HashiCorp Vault and OpenBao, where the TLS certificate authentication method failed to properly validate client certificates when a non-CA certificate was configured as trusted. This flaw allows an unauthenticated attacker to bypass authentication by crafting a malicious certificate. With a CVSS score of 9.8 (Critical), the vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, potentially leading to complete compromise of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While no active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion has been observed, immediate patching to Vault 1.15.5 or 1.14.10 is strongly recommended.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.14.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
< 1.14.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.15.0, < 1.15.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.15.0, < 1.15.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
< 2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openbao:openbao:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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