CVE-2022-40186

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.

Category

9.1
CVSS
Severity: Critical
CVSS 3.1 •
EPSS 0.32%
Vendor Advisory hashicorp.com Vendor Advisory hashicorp.com
Affected: n/a n/a
Published at:
Updated at:

References

Link Tags
https://discuss.hashicorp.com vendor advisory
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-18-vault-entity-alias-metadata-may-leak-between-aliases-with-the-same-name-assigned-to-the-same-entity/44550 vendor advisory
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221111-0008/ third party advisory

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the severity of CVE-2022-40186?
CVE-2022-40186 has been scored as a critical severity vulnerability.
How to fix CVE-2022-40186?
To fix CVE-2022-40186, make sure you are using an up-to-date version of the affected component(s) by checking the vendor release notes. As for now, there are no other specific guidelines available.
Is CVE-2022-40186 being actively exploited in the wild?
As for now, there are no information to confirm that CVE-2022-40186 is being actively exploited. According to its EPSS score, there is a ~0% probability that this vulnerability will be exploited by malicious actors in the next 30 days.
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