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Emerging Security Issue: HashiCorp Vault SSH CVE-2024-7594

Emma-Zaballos
By Emma Zaballos
Product Marketing Manager
October 1, 2024

CVE-2024-7594 is a severe unrestricted authentication issue affecting HashiCorp’s Vault’s SSH secrets engine, specifically Vault Community Edition versions 1.7.7-1.17.5 and Vault Enterprise versions 1.7.7-1.17.5, as well as 1.16.9 and 1.15.14. HashiCorp has released patches for CVE-2024-7594 and organizations can mitigate vulnerable instances by setting the SSH secrets engine valid_principals field to a non-empty value. CyCognito is investigating methods to deploy to actively detect this vulnerability, but more information about this issue is available to users in the CyCognito platform.



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