CVE-2021-41802: Hashicorp Vault

Medium severity, CVSS 5.4. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise through 1.7.4 and 1.8.3 allowed a user with write permission to an entity alias ID sharing a mount accessor with another user to acquire this other user’s policies by merging their identities. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.7.5 and 1.8.4.

Affected products

• Hashicorp Vault: before 1.7.5 (fixed in 1.7.5); from 1.8.0, before 1.8.4 (fixed in 1.8.4)

Published 2021-10-08. Last modified 2026-06-17.