CVE-2020-10661

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.11.0 through 1.3.3 may, under certain circumstances, have existing nested-path policies grant access to Namespaces created after-the-fact. Fixed in 1.3.4.

Published: Mar 23, 2020
Updated: May 4, 2025
CVE: CVE-2020-10661
GHSA: GHSA-j6vv-vv26-rh7c
Severity: Critical
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Critical
Score: 9.1
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2:

Severity: Medium
Score: 5.8
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CWEs:

CWE-269

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
hashicorp / vault	0.11.0	1.3.3.x
github.com/hashicorp/vault/vault	0.11.0	1.3.4

https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#134-march-19th-2020
https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/commit/18485ee9d4352ac8e8396c580b5941ccf8e5b31a
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault
https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/category/vault/

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2020-10661

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