Vault Leaks AppRole Client Tokens And Accessor in Audit Log
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- Required
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · None · None
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub. Impact type from CWE-532.
Summary
Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise experienced a regression where functionality that HMAC’d sensitive headers in the configured audit device, specifically client tokens and token accessors, was removed. This resulted in the plaintext values of client tokens and token accessors being stored in the audit log. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-8365, was fixed in Vault Community Edition and Vault Enterprise 1.17.5 and Vault Enterprise 1.16.9.
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 | 1.17.3 to before 1.17.5 | 1.17.5 | Patch available | CNA |
| HashiCorp | Vault Enterprise | 1.16.7 to before 1.17.5 | 1.17.5 | Patch available | CNA |
| — | github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) | 1.17.3 to before 1.17.5 | 1.17.5 | Patch available | GHSA-jjxf-26c9-77gm |
- Vault VendorHashiCorp Affected 1.17.3 to before 1.17.5 Fixed in 1.17.5 Patch available CNA
- Vault Enterprise VendorHashiCorp Affected 1.16.7 to before 1.17.5 Fixed in 1.17.5 Patch available CNA
- github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) Vendor— Affected 1.17.3 to before 1.17.5 Fixed in 1.17.5 Patch available GHSA-jjxf-26c9-77gm
Remediation
- Fix · CNA Vault (HashiCorp) Fixed in 1.17.5
- Fix · CNA Vault Enterprise (HashiCorp) Fixed in 1.17.5
- Fix · GHSA-jjxf-26c9-77gm github.com/hashicorp/vault (Go) Fixed in 1.17.5 Advisory →
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 2 products
- Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4
- Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2024-8365
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-jjxf-26c9-77gm
References
Advisory 3
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-2024-8365 · CVE Program
- CVE-2024-8365 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-jjxf-26c9-77gm · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2024-8365 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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