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CVE-2021-32923

Status: ModifiedHigh (7.4)—

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise allowed the renewal of nearly-expired token leases and dynamic secret leases (specifically, those within 1 second of their maximum TTL), which caused them to be incorrectly treated as non-expiring during subsequent use. Fixed in 1.5.9, 1.6.5, and 1.7.2.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

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Affected technologies (1)

Hashicorp — Vault

CWEs

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