Bug 2167340 (CVE-2020-16251)

Summary:	CVE-2020-16251 vault: GCP Auth Method Allows Authentication Bypass
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	amctagga, dfreiber, etamir, jburrell, jcantril, madam, muagarwa, nbecker, nobody, ocs-bugs, periklis, rogbas, tnielsen, vkumar
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	vault 1.2.5, vault 1.3.8, vault 1.4.4, vault 1.5.1	Doc Type:	---
Doc Text:	A flaw was found in Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”). In affected versions of Vault, with the GCP Auth Method configured and under certain circumstances, the values relied upon by Vault to validate Google Compute Engine (GCE) VMs may be manipulated and bypass authentication.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2023-05-18 08:42:30 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:
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Bug Depends On:	2167349, 2167350, 2167351, 2167354, 2167355, 2167357, 2167359
Bug Blocks:	2167338

Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-02-06 10:46:12 UTC

A vulnerability was identified in Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) such that, with the GCP Auth Method configured and under certain circumstances, the values relied upon by Vault to validate Google Compute Engine (GCE) VMs may be manipulated and authentication bypassed. 

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault/
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#151
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/159479/Hashicorp-Vault-GCP-IAM-Integration-Authentication-Bypass.html

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-18 02:33:40 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.13

Via RHSA-2023:2138 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:2138

Comment 5 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-18 08:42:28 UTC

This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2020-16251

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2023-06-22 19:52:17 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHODF-4.13-RHEL-9

Via RHSA-2023:3742 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3742