7.5

CVE-2024-5798: hashicorp vault Improper Authentication

CVSS: 7.5v3.1HighModified
AliasesGHSA-32cj-5wx4-gq8pBIT-vault-2024-5798GO-2024-2921
Published 12-06-2024Last modified 04-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-5798 is a high (CVSS 7.5) Improper Authentication vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 26.5% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
30/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (NVD)
EPSS score
0.34%
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 3
CGA-5C6X-XWM6-G66FCGA-CCC8-G76X-J2HWCGA-CCRF-775V-573J

Timeline

  1. 12-06-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly validate the JSON Web Token (JWT) role-bound audience claim when using the Vault JWT auth method. This may have resulted in Vault validating a JWT the audience and role-bound claims do not match, allowing an invalid login to succeed when it should have been rejected. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-5798, was fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.0, 1.16.3, and 1.15.9

CVSS metrics

3 scores · 3 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.34%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

27%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.34% on 21-09-2026

21-09-202621-10-2026
EPSS score
0.34%

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

Hashicorp2 products
  • vault≥ 0.11.0, < 1.16.2 | ≥ 0.11.0, < 1.15.9 | ≥ 1.16.0, < 1.16.3
  • vault enterprise≥ 0.11.0, < 1.16.2
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault≥ 1.16.0-rc1, < 1.16.3 | ≥ 0.11.0, < 1.15.9 | ≥ 1.17.0-rc1, < 1.17.0

2 vendors · 3 products

References

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