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CVE-2024-9180

Vault Operators in Root Namespace May Elevate Their Privileges

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: October 10, 2024 at 08:54 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 08:24 AM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsVaultOpenbao

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.5%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

A privileged Vault operator with write permissions to the root namespace’s identity endpoint could escalate their own or another user’s privileges to Vault’s root policy. Fixed in Vault Community Edition 1.18.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.18.0, 1.17.7, 1.16.11, and 1.15.16.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Vault· Hashicorp
95%
0.10.4 ≤ v < 1.18.01.15.0 ≤ v < 1.15.161.16.0 ≤ v < 1.16.111.7.7 ≤ v ≤ 1.17.71.7.7 ≤ v < 1.18.00.10.4
Vendor states this is fixed in 1.15.16 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1.16.11 (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 1.17.7 (unaffected)
Affected range stops below 1.18.0, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Openbao· Openbao
95%
v < 2.0.3

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (1)

Vendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-21-vault-operators-in-root-namespace-may-elevate-their-privileges/70565

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.2HIGHHashiCorp
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusANALYZED
CWE
CWE-266NVD-CWE-Other

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