High
Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates
Type: advisorySources: OSV
Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to bypass authentication. Fixed in Vault 1.15.5 and 1.14.10.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2024-2048
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 3 Nov 2026, 04:46 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Vault Cert Auth Method Did Not Correctly Validate Non-CA Certificates
core-osv · Original sourcePublished 4 Mar 2024, 19:56 UTC
Vault and Vault Enterprise (“Vault”) TLS certificate auth method did not correctly validate client certificates when configured with a non-CA certificate as trusted certificate. In this configuration, an attacker may be able to craft a malicious certificate that could be used to bypass authentication. Fixed in Vault 1.15.5 and 1.14.10.
osv:CVE-2024-2048
Complete source record
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