Vault JWT Auth: Audience Claim Validation Bypass before 1.17.0
CVE-2024-5798 Published on June 12, 2024
Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims
Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly validate the JSON Web Token (JWT) role-bound audience claim when using the Vault JWT auth method. This may have resulted in Vault validating a JWT the audience and role-bound claims do not match, allowing an invalid login to succeed when it should have been rejected.
This vulnerability, CVE-2024-5798, was fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.0, 1.16.3, and 1.15.9
Weakness Type
What is an authentification Vulnerability?
When an actor claims to have a given identity, the software does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct.
CVE-2024-5798 has been classified to as an authentification vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-5798
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Affected Versions
HashiCorp Vault:- Version 0.11.0 and below 1.16.2 is affected.
- Version 0.11.0 and below 1.16.2 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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