CVE-2023-24999 Vault Fails to Verify if the AppRole SecretID Belongs to Role During a Destroy Operation

What is CVE-2023-24999?

CVE-2023-24999 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, published on 10 Mar 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, with no action from the victim.

Official description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise’s approle auth method allowed any authenticated user with access to an approle destroy endpoint to destroy the secret ID of any other role by providing the secret ID accessor. This vulnerability is fixed in Vault 1.13.0, 1.12.4, 1.11.8, 1.10.11 and above.

Weakness: CWE-863

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-24999?

8 open source packages ship an affected version, including github.com/hashicorp/vault and vault. It affects 1 product.

Products include Hashicorp Vault.

How do I fix CVE-2023-24999?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/vault to a fixed version for your release line: 1.10.11, 1.11.8 or 1.12.4.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2023-24999 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-24999 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Hashicorp Vault

• CVE-2020-35192 Hardcoded credentials in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-12757 Improper Input Validation in HashiCorp Vault Critical 9.8
• CVE-2025-6000 Arbitrary Remote Code Execution via Plugin Catalog Abuse Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-40186 HashiCorp Vault vulnerable to incorrect metadata access Critical 9.1
• CVE-2022-36129 Missing authorization in n/a Critical 9.1

All Hashicorp Vault vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-vault-2023-24999, GHSA-wmg5-g953-qqfw, GO-2023-1900.