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Low severityNVD Advisory· Published Jun 12, 2024· Updated Nov 4, 2025

Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims

CVE-2024-5798

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

Affected packages

Versions sourced from the GitHub Security Advisory.

PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo
>= 1.17.0-rc1, < 1.17.01.17.0
github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo
>= 1.16.0-rc1, < 1.16.31.16.3
github.com/hashicorp/vaultGo
>= 0.11.0, < 1.15.91.15.9

Affected products

2
  • Hashicorp/Vaultv5
    Range: 0.11.0
  • HashiCorp/Vault Enterprisev5
    Range: 0.11.0

Patches

0

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