CVE-2024-2660 Vault TLS Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate OCSP Responses

What is CVE-2024-2660?

CVE-2024-2660 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, published on 4 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Vault and Vault Enterprise TLS certificates auth method did not correctly validate OCSP responses when one or more OCSP sources were configured. This vulnerability, CVE-2024-2660, affects Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.14.0 and above, and is fixed in Vault 1.16.0 and Vault Enterprise 1.16.1, 1.15.7, and 1.14.11.

Weakness: CWE-636

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2660?

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-2024-2660?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/vault to 1.16.0 or later.

Is CVE-2024-2660 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2660 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-2024-2660, GHSA-j2rp-gmqv-frhv, GO-2024-2690, openSUSE-SU-2024:14104-1.