CVE-2024-2048

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.

Published: Mar 4, 2024
Updated: Aug 7, 2025
CVE: CVE-2024-2048
GHSA: GHSA-r3w7-mfpm-c2vw
Severity: Critical
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: Critical
Score: 9.8
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWEs:

CWE-295

OWASP TOP 10:

A3 - Sensitive Data Exposure

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
github.com/hashicorp/vault	1.15.0	1.15.5
github.com/hashicorp/vault	-	1.14.10
hashicorp / vault	1.15.0	1.15.5
hashicorp / vault	-	1.14.10

https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-05-vault-cert-auth-method-did-not-correctly-validate-non-ca-certificates/63382
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0009
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0009/

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CVE-2024-2048

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