CVE-2024-2877 Vault Enterprise Leaks Sensitive HTTP Request Headers in the Audit Log When Deployed With a Performance Standby Node

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Attackers with audit log access can read sensitive HTTP headers from performance standby nodes in Vault Enterprise deployments.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
An administrator
Attackable
Local or same network only
Victim action needed
A user has to click or open something
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2024-2877?

CVE-2024-2877 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, published on 30 Apr 2024. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Vault Enterprise, when configured with performance standby nodes and a configured audit device, will inadvertently log request headers on the standby node. These logs may have included sensitive HTTP request information in cleartext.

This vulnerability, CVE-2024-2877, was fixed in Vault Enterprise 1.15.8.

Weakness: CWE-532

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-2877?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including vault. It affects 1 product.

PackageAffectedFixed in
vault BitnamiFrom 1.15.01.15.8

Products include Hashicorp Vault.

How do I fix CVE-2024-2877?

Upgrade vault to 1.15.8 or later.

Is CVE-2024-2877 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-2877 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Hashicorp Vault vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as BIT-vault-2024-2877, GHSA-vxc5-78f8-rhp4.

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