CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-2048

Improper Certificate Validation

Published: Mar 04, 2024 | Modified: Aug 06, 2025
CVSS 3.x
9.8
CRITICAL
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
8.1 IMPORTANT
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Ubuntu

Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to bypass authentication. Fixed in Vault 1.15.5 and 1.14.10.

Weakness

The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Vault Hashicorp * 1.14.10 (excluding)
Vault Hashicorp 1.15.0 (including) 1.15.5 (excluding)

Potential Mitigations

References