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CVE-2022-41316

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-10-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-295

Description

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise’s TLS certificate auth method did not initially load the optionally configured CRL issued by the role's CA into memory on startup, resulting in the revocation list not being checked if the CRL has not yet been retrieved. Fixed in 1.12.0, 1.11.4, 1.10.7, and 1.9.10.

Affected products

• HashiCorp Vault: before 1.9.10; from 1.10.0 before 1.10.7; from 1.11.0 before 1.11.4 — fixed in 1.10.7, 1.11.4, 1.9.10

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: HashiCorp Vault 1.10.7, 1.11.4, 1.9.10. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://discuss.hashicorp.com
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-24-vaults-tls-cert-auth-method-only-loaded-crl-after-first-request/45483
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221201-0001/
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com
• https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2022-24-vaults-tls-cert-auth-method-only-loaded-crl-after-first-request/45483
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221201-0001/

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