CVE-2024-5798: HashiCorp Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims

June 12, 2024 (updated August 7, 2025)

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

References

discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-11-vault-incorrectly-validated-json-web-tokens-jwt-audience-claims/67770
github.com/advisories/GHSA-32cj-5wx4-gq8p
github.com/hashicorp/vault
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5798
pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2921

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