7.2

CVE-2024-9180: hashicorp vault Incorrect Privilege Assignment

CVSS: 7.2v3.1HighAnalyzed
AliasesGHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5jBIT-openbao-2024-9180BIT-vault-2024-9180
Published 10-10-2024Last modified 08-11-2024
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2024-9180 is a high (CVSS 7.2) Incorrect Privilege Assignment vulnerability in hashicorp vault. EPSS estimates a 0.53% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
29/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
7.2/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.53%
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 3 · Related 4
OPENSUSE-SU-2024:0350-1OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14447-1SUSE-SU-2024:3911-1CGA-9MC2-FX8Q-8MWX

Timeline

  1. 10-10-2024
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 08-11-2024
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.18.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.0, 1.17.7, 1.16.11, and 1.15.16.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.53%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

43%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

0.00 pp

From 0.53% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.53%

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

Chainguard2 products
  • vault-1.16All versions (No fix recorded)
  • vault-1.17All versions (No fix recorded)
Hashicorp2 products
  • vault≥ 0.10.4, < 1.18.0 | ≥ 1.7.7, ≤ 1.17.7 | ≥ 1.7.7, < 1.18.0 | ≥ 1.15.0, < 1.15.16 | ≥ 1.16.0, < 1.16.11
  • vault enterprise≥ 0.10.4, < 1.18.0
Github.com/hashicorp1 product
  • vault< 1.18.0
Github.com/openbao1 product
  • openbao< 2.0.3
Openbao1 product

5 vendors · 7 products

References

7 links