CVE-2023-5077 Vault's Google Cloud Secrets Engine Removed Existing IAM Conditions When Creating / Updating Rolesets

What is CVE-2023-5077?

CVE-2023-5077 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, published on 28 Sep 2023. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

The Vault and Vault Enterprise ("Vault") Google Cloud secrets engine did not preserve existing Google Cloud IAM Conditions upon creating or updating rolesets. Fixed in Vault 1.13.0.

Weakness: CWE-732, CWE-266

Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-5077?

4 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-2023-5077?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/vault to 1.13.0 or later.

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

Is CVE-2023-5077 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-5077 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-2023-5077, GHSA-86c6-3g63-5w64, GO-2023-2088.