CVE-2021-27400 — Improper Certificate Validation in Vault

CWE-295 — Improper Certificate Validation3 documents3 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 53.60%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Hashicorp Vault
Timeline
PublishedApr 22
Latest updateMay 24

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise Cassandra integrations (storage backend and database secrets engine plugin) did not validate TLS certificates when connecting to Cassandra clusters. Fixed in 1.6.4 and 1.7.1

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDhashicorp/vault1.7.0 — 1.7.1+1

🔴Vulnerability Details

1
GHSA
GHSA-4wr6-x9g6-m47v: HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise Cassandra integrations (storage backend and database secrets engine plugin) did not validate TLS certificates whe↗2022-05-24
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
vault: TLS certificates not validated when connecting to Cassandra clusters↗2021-04-22
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