CVE-2024-2048

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to bypass authentication. Fixed in Vault 1.15.5 and 1.14.10.

CVSS v3.0 9.8 CRITICAL

9.8^/10

CVSS v3.0 : CRITICAL

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 5.9

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact HIGH

Integrity Impact HIGH

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-05-vault-cert-auth-method-did-not-correctly-validate-non-ca-certificates/63382	Vendor Advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-05-vault-cert-auth-method-did-not-correctly-validate-non-ca-certificates/63382	Vendor Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0009/	Third Party Advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0009/	Third Party Advisory

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:::::-:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:::::-:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:::::enterprise:::*

History

06 Aug 2025, 14:17

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:::::enterprise:::* cpe:2.3:a:hashicorp:vault:::::-:::*
CVSS	v2 : ~~unknown~~ v3 : ~~unknown~~	v2 : unknown v3 : 9.8
First Time		Hashicorp Hashicorp vault
References	~~() https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0009/ -~~	() https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0009/ - Third Party Advisory
References	~~() https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-05-vault-cert-auth-method-did-not-correctly-validate-non-ca-certificates/63382 -~~	() https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-05-vault-cert-auth-method-did-not-correctly-validate-non-ca-certificates/63382 - Vendor Advisory

10 Jun 2024, 17:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References		() https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0009/ -

04 Mar 2024, 20:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2024-03-04 20:15

Updated : 2025-08-06 14:17

NVD link : CVE-2024-2048

Mitre link : CVE-2024-2048

JSON object : View

Products Affected

hashicorp

vault

CWE

No CWE.

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