Bug 2028193 (CVE-2021-43998) - CVE-2021-43998 vault: incorrect policy enforcement
Summary: CVE-2021-43998 vault: incorrect policy enforcement
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-43998
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 2028478 2126650 2167273 2167279 2167280 2167281 2167282 2167283 2167284
Blocks: 2028194
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Reported: 2021-12-01 17:04 UTC by Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz
Modified: 2023-06-22 19:51 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

Fixed In Version: Vault 1.7.6, Vault 1.8.5, Vault 1.9.0
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A flaw was found in HashiCorp Vault. In affected versions of HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise, templated ACL policies would always match the first-created entity alias if multiple entity aliases exist for a specified entity and mount combination, potentially resulting in incorrect policy enforcement.
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Last Closed: 2023-05-18 08:41:32 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:2138 0 None None None 2023-05-18 02:33:40 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2023:3742 0 None None None 2023-06-22 19:51:35 UTC

Description Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-12-01 17:04:17 UTC 
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 0.11.0 up to 1.7.5 and 1.8.4 templated ACL policies would always match the first-created entity alias if multiple entity aliases exist for a specified entity and mount combination, potentially resulting in incorrect policy enforcement. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.7.6, 1.8.5, and 1.9.0.

Reference:
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-30-vaults-templated-acl-policies-matched-first-created-alias-per-entity-and-auth-backend/32132
Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2023-05-18 02:33:39 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 7 Product Security DevOps Team 2023-05-18 08:41:30 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-2021-43998
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2023-06-22 19:51:34 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
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