CVE-2021-45042 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Vault
Severity
4.9MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 37.10%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedDec 17
Latest updateDec 18
Description
In HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise before 1.7.7, 1.8.x before 1.8.6, and 1.9.x before 1.9.1, clusters using the Integrated Storage backend allowed an authenticated user (with write permissions to a kv secrets engine) to cause a panic and denial of service of the storage backend. The earliest affected version is 1.4.0.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.2 | Impact: 3.6