CVE-2024-5798 Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims

What is CVE-2024-5798?

CVE-2024-5798 is a low-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Hashicorp Vault, published on 12 Jun 2024. An attacker needs administrator access to exploit it, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

Vault and Vault Enterprise did not properly validate the JSON Web Token (JWT) role-bound audience claim when using the Vault JWT auth method. This may have resulted in Vault validating a JWT the audience and role-bound claims do not match, allowing an invalid login to succeed when it should have been rejected.

This vulnerability, CVE-2024-5798, was fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.0, 1.16.3, and 1.15.9

Weakness: CWE-287

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-5798?

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-2024-5798?

Upgrade github.com/hashicorp/vault to a fixed version for your release line: 1.16.3, 1.17.0 or 1.15.9.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2024-5798 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-5798 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
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Also known as BIT-vault-2024-5798, GHSA-32cj-5wx4-gq8p, GO-2024-2921.