9.1

CVE-2022-40186: hashicorp vault

CVSS: 9.1v3.1CriticalModified
AliasesGHSA-7cgv-v83v-rr87BIT-vault-2022-40186GO-2022-1021
Published 22-09-2022Last modified 27-05-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2022-40186 is a critical (CVSS 9.1) vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 1.00% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 62.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.1/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
1.00%
0%100%
Low · +0.01 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 22-09-2022
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 27-05-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

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.

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

1.00%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

63%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.01 pp

From 1.00% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
1.00%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 1.10.0, < 1.10.6 | ≥ 1.8.0, < 1.9.9 | ≥ 1.11.0, < 1.11.3
Hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 1.8.0, < 1.9.9 | ≥ 1.10.0, < 1.10.6 | ≥ 1.11.0, < 1.11.3

2 vendors · 2 products

References

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