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SCA: security update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-7cgv-v83v-rr87)

critical Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 411994

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An issue was discovered in HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.11.3. A vulnerability in the
 Identity Engine was found where, in a deployment where an entity has multiple mount accessors with shared
 alias names, Vault may overwrite metadata to the wrong alias due to an issue with checking the proper
 alias assigned to an entity. This may allow for unintended access to key/value paths using that metadata
 in Vault. (CVE-2022-40186)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7cgv-v83v-rr87

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 411994

Version: Revision 1.9

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 6/1/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.06

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-40186

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/22/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-40186

cwe: CWE-639