Vulnerability Report

CVE-2021-45042

Title: Hashicorp Vault Denial of Service (DoS)

Denial of Service (DoS)

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2021-45042.

CWE Category NVD-CWE-noinfo
Published Date Dec 17, 2021
Modified Date Nov 21, 2024
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 4.9 CVSS v3.1
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.44%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2021-45042: In HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.7.7, 1.8.x before 1.8.6, and 1.9.x before 1.9.1, clusters using the Integrated Storage backend allowed an authenticated user (with write permissions to a kv secrets engine) to cause a panic and denial of service of the storage backend. The earliest affected version is 1.4.0.

Impacted Vendors

T
tibco 1
H
hashicorp 1

Reference Links

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec2-21-33-vault-s-kv-secrets-engine-with-integrated-storage-exposed-to-authenticated-denial-of-service/33157 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec2-21-33-vault-s-kv-secrets-engine-with-integrated-storage-exposed-to-authenticated-denial-of-service/33157 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault
CVSS v3.1
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
4.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
N/A
Interaction
NONE
Confidentiality
N/A
Integrity
N/A
Availability
N/A
Scope
UNCHANGED
RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.8
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2021-45042 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK
Complexity LOW
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.