GHSA-rr8j-7w34-xp5jHighCVSS 7.2

Vault Community Edition privilege escalation vulnerability

Published
October 10, 2024
Last Modified
August 4, 2025

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2024-9180 →

📋 Description

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their 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

🎯 Affected products2

  • go/github.com/hashicorp/vault:< 1.18.0
  • go/github.com/openbao/openbao:< 2.0.3

🔗 References (5)