CVE-2024-5798
Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims
2.6
LOW
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.28%
Description
Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly validate the JSON Web Token (JWT) role-bound audience claim when using the Vault JWT auth method. This may have resulted in Vault validating a JWT the audience and role-bound claims do not match, allowing an invalid login to succeed when it should have been rejected. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-5798, was fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.0, 1.16.3, and 1.15.9
How to fix CVE-2024-5798
To remediate CVE-2024-5798, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1.16.2 or later
- —upgrade to 1.17.0 or later
- —upgrade to 1.16.3 or later
Is CVE-2024-5798 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.3%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- >= 0.11.0, < 1.16.2
- >= 1.17.0-rc1, < 1.17.0
- >= 0.11.0, < 1.16.3, >= 1.17.0-rc1, < 1.17.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | LOW2.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N |