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GHSA-v3hp-mcj5-pg39

GitHub Security Advisory

HashiCorp Vault’s Microsoft SQL Database Storage Backend Vulnerable to SQL Injection Via Configuration File

✓ GitHub Reviewed MODERATE Has CVE

Advisory Details

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise versions 0.8.0 until 1.13.1 are vulnerable to an SQL injection attack when using the Microsoft SQL (MSSQL) Database Storage Backend. When configuring the MSSQL plugin, certain parameters are required to establish a connection (schema, database, and table) are not sanitized when passed to the user-provided MSSQL database. A privileged attacker with the ability to write arbitrary data to Vault's configuration may modify these parameters to execute a malicious SQL command when the Vault configuration is applied. This issue is fixed in versions 1.13.1, 1.12.5, and 1.11.9.

Affected Packages

Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
Affected versions: 0.8.0 (fixed in 1.11.9)
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
Affected versions: 1.12.0 (fixed in 1.12.5)
Go github.com/hashicorp/vault
Affected versions: 1.13.0 (fixed in 1.13.1)

Related CVEs

Key Information

GHSA ID
GHSA-v3hp-mcj5-pg39
Published
March 30, 2023 3:30 AM
Last Modified
April 6, 2023 10:55 PM
CVSS Score
5.0 /10
Primary Ecosystem
Go
Primary Package
github.com/hashicorp/vault
GitHub Reviewed
✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: November 25, 2025 6:29 AM

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