CVE-2021-41802

medium

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise through 1.7.4 and 1.8.3 allowed a user with write permission to an entity alias ID sharing a mount accessor with another user to acquire this other user’s policies by merging their identities. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.7.5 and 1.8.4.

References

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qv95-g3gm-x542

https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2021-2251

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-27-vault-merging-multiple-entity-aliases-for-the-same-mount-may-allow-privilege-escalation/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-10-08

Updated: 2026-06-17

Named Vulnerability: GO-2022-0618Named Vulnerability: GHSA-qv95-g3gm-x542

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.4

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00159