Vault v1.9.1 Release Notes

  • December 9, 2021

    ๐Ÿ”’ SECURITY:

    • ๐Ÿ›  storage/raft: Integrated Storage backend could be caused to crash by an authenticated user with write permissions to the KV secrets engine. This vulnerability, CVE-2021-45042, was fixed in Vault 1.7.7, 1.8.6, and 1.9.1.

    ๐Ÿ‘Œ IMPROVEMENTS:

    • โฌ†๏ธ storage/aerospike: Upgrade aerospike-client-go to v5.6.0. [GH-12165]

    ๐Ÿ› BUG FIXES:

    • auth/approle: Fix regression where unset cidrlist is returned as nil instead of zero-length array. [GH-13235]
    • ๐ŸŽ ha (enterprise): Prevents performance standby nodes from serving and caching stale data immediately after performance standby election completes
    • ๐Ÿ‘ http:Fix /sys/monitor endpoint returning streaming not supported [GH-13200]
    • identity/oidc: Make the nonce parameter optional for the Authorization Endpoint of OIDC providers. [GH-13231]
    • ๐Ÿ›  identity: Fixes a panic in the OIDC key rotation due to a missing nil check. [GH-13298]
    • ๐Ÿ”’ sdk/queue: move lock before length check to prevent panics. [GH-13146]
    • ๐Ÿ›  secrets/azure: Fixes service principal generation when assigning roles that have DataActions. [GH-13277]
    • secrets/pki: Recognize ed25519 when requesting a response in PKCS8 format [GH-13257]
    • storage/raft: Fix a panic when trying to store a key > 32KB in a transaction. [GH-13286]
    • storage/raft: Fix a panic when trying to write a key > 32KB [GH-13282]
    • ๐Ÿ’ป ui: Do not show verify connection value on database connection config page [GH-13152]
    • ๐Ÿ’ป ui: Fixes issue restoring raft storage snapshot [GH-13107]
    • ๐Ÿ’ป ui: Fixes issue with OIDC auth workflow when using MetaMask Chrome extension [GH-13133]
    • ๐Ÿ“‡ ui: Fixes issue with automate secret deletion value not displaying initially if set in secret metadata edit view [GH-13177]
    • ๐Ÿ’ป ui: Fixes issue with placeholder not displaying for automatically deleted secrets when deletion time has passed [GH-13166]
    • ๐Ÿ“œ ui: Fixes node-forge error when parsing EC (elliptical curve) certs [GH-13238]