CVE-2022-40186

vault: Vault Entity Alias Metadata May Leak Between Aliases With The Same Name Assigned To The Same Entity

Published Sep 22, 2022 CVSS 3.1 · 9.1 Critical EPSS 1.0% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2022-6730 HashiCorp Vault vulnerable to incorrect metadata access
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-7cgv-v83v-rr87 HashiCorp Vault vulnerable to incorrect metadata access
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
Weaknesses CWE-639
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
May 27, 2025, 6:11 PM
Reserved
Sep 8, 2022, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Sep 22, 2022, 1:15 AM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 5:01 AM
Severity
Important
Public date
Sep 22, 2022, 12:00 AM