Bug 2189758 (CVE-2021-27668)

Summary: CVE-2021-27668 vault: Vault Enterprise’s DR Secondaries Exposed License Metadata Without Authentication
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: amctagga, jcantril, mrajanna, muagarwa, nbecker, ocs-bugs, periklis, tnielsen
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A flaw was found in HashiCorp Vault Enterprise. This flaw allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information caused by improper authentication validation by the /sys/license endpoint. By sending a specially-crafted HTTP request, an attacker can obtain license metadata from DR secondaries and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
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Description Avinash Hanwate 2023-04-26 05:15:31 UTC
HashiCorp Vault Enterprise 0.9.2 through 1.6.2 allowed the read of license metadata from DR secondaries without authentication. Fixed in 1.6.3.

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-05-vault-enterprise-s-dr-secondaries-exposed-license-metadata-without-authentication/21427
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01

Comment 1 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-04-26 12:10:38 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-2021-27668