9.8

CVE-2024-2048: hashicorp vault Improper Certificate Validation

CVSS: 9.8v3.1CriticalAnalyzed
AliasesCGA-3538-5fpr-fq76CGA-54qh-m76v-68f3CGA-58xv-wgx7-hjfp
Published 04-03-2024Last modified 13-02-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-2048 is a critical (CVSS 9.8) Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 37.8% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
70/100
0100
High · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
9.8/10
010
Critical · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.45%
0%100%
Low · 0.00 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 0 · Related 6
CGA-3JCQ-JXVM-WWQQCGA-4832-GCG9-6MHJCGA-4Q5P-5WG2-X27JCGA-P735-8WC2-M9H8CGA-RM8J-R4JG-5482CGA-RRG3-2X63-27XF

Timeline

  1. 04-03-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 13-02-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to bypass authentication. Fixed in Vault 1.15.5 and 1.14.10.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.45%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

38%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.45% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.45%

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

Chainguard5 products
  • k3d< 5.6.0-r11
  • k3d-proxy< 5.6.0-r11
  • k3d-tools< 5.6.0-r11
  • vault-1.16All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.16-compatAll versions (No fix recorded)
Wolfi3 products
  • k3d< 5.6.0-r11
  • k3d-proxy< 5.6.0-r11
  • k3d-tools< 5.6.0-r11
Hashicorp2 products
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault< 1.14.10 | ≥ 1.15.0, < 1.15.5
Openbao1 product

5 vendors · 12 products

References

6 links