Vault Enterprise's Sentinel RGP Policies Allowed For Cross-Namespace Denial of Service
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- High
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Privilege escalation
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat. Impact type from CWE-266.
Summary
A Vault Enterprise Sentinel Role Governing Policy created by an operator to restrict access to resources in one namespace can be applied to requests outside in another non-descendant namespace, potentially resulting in denial of service. Fixed in Vault Enterprise 1.15.0, 1.14.4, 1.13.8.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HashiCorp | Vault Enterprise | 1.14.0 to before 1.14.4; 1.13.0 to before 1.13.8; 0.11.0 to before 1.13.0 | 1.14.4, 1.13.8 | Patch available | CNA |
- Vault Enterprise VendorHashiCorp Affected 1.14.0 to before 1.14.4; 1.13.0 to before 1.13.8; 0.11.0 to before 1.13.0 Fixed in 1.14.4, 1.13.8 Patch available CNA
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Vault Enterprise (HashiCorp) Fixed in 1.14.4, 1.13.8
Red Hat 1 advisory
- RHSA-2024:3718 Released 2024-10-01 · Red Hat rating ModerateOpenShift Container Platform 4.17.0 bug fix and security update
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 openshift4/aws-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9, openshift4/azure-kms-encryption-provider-rhel9, openshift4/cloud-network-config-controller-rhel9 +47
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17 | Fixed | RHSA-2024:3718 |
Not affected: 10 products
- OpenShift Pipelines
- OpenShift Serverless
- Red Hat Ceph Storage 5
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
- Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.17
- Red Hat OpenShift Data Science (RHODS)
- Red Hat OpenShift GitOps
- Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4
- Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4
- cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2023-3775
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-37gg-8xjr-m6x4
References
More HashiCorp Vault vulnerabilities
- TI-2024-01904 Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2022-19053 An issue was discovered in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.11.3. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
- TI-2020-17874 The official vault docker images before 0.11.6 contain a blank password for a root user. CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2020-10142 HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.0 and 1.4.1, when configured with the GCP… CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
- TI-2026-04407 Vault Vulnerable to Server-Side Request Forgery in ACME Challenge Validation via Attacker-Controlled DNS CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.6
- TI-2025-05421 Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Abuse CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.1
Sources
- CVE-2023-3775 · CVE Program
- CVE-2023-3775 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-37gg-8xjr-m6x4 · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2023-3775 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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