GHSA-32cj-5wx4-gq8pLowCVSS 2.6

HashiCorp Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims

Published
June 12, 2024
Last Modified
August 7, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-5798 →

📋 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

🎯 Affected products3

  • go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:= 1.17.0-rc1
  • go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:>= 1.16.0-rc1, < 1.16.3
  • go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:>= 0.11.0, < 1.15.9

🔗 References (4)