{"id":"CVE-2024-5798","aliases":["GHSA-32cj-5wx4-gq8p","BIT-vault-2024-5798","GO-2024-2921"],"title":"HashiCorp Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims","summary":"HashiCorp Vault Incorrectly Validated JSON Web Tokens (JWT) Audience Claims","severity":"low","cvss":2.6,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N","vendor":"hashicorp","product":"github.com/hashicorp/vault","ecosystem":"go","affected":["github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 1.17.0-rc1, < 1.17.0","github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 1.16.0-rc1, < 1.16.3","github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 0.11.0, < 1.15.9"],"patched":["github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.17.0","github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.16.3","github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.15.9"],"published":"2024-06-12","updated":"2026-08-07","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-32cj-5wx4-gq8p","references":[{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-5798"},{"url":"https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2024-11-vault-incorrectly-validated-json-web-tokens-jwt-audience-claims/67770"},{"url":"https://github.com/hashicorp/vault"},{"url":"https://pkg.go.dev/vuln/GO-2024-2921"}],"tags":["osv","go"],"epss":0.00343,"epssPercentile":0.27868,"ingestedAt":"2026-08-07T19:14:15.536Z","slug":"CVE-2024-5798","body":"## Overview\n\nVault 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.\n\nThis vulnerability, CVE-2024-5798, was fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.17.0, 1.16.3, and 1.15.9\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 1.17.0-rc1, < 1.17.0`\n- `github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 1.16.0-rc1, < 1.16.3`\n- `github.com/hashicorp/vault >= 0.11.0, < 1.15.9`\n\n## Remediation\n\nUpgrade to a patched release:\n\n- `github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.17.0`\n- `github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.16.3`\n- `github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.15.9`","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":14,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":14.3,"likelihood":0.1,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}