Vault 1.17.5 and 1.16.9 released!

Hi all,

The Vault team is announcing the release of 1.17.5, as well as Vault Enterprise 1.16.9. There is security content in these releases.

The Community Edition binary can be downloaded at [1]. Enterprise binaries are available to customers as well.

As a reminder, if you believe you have found a security issue in Vault, please responsibly disclose by emailing security@hashicorp.com and do not use the public issue tracker. Our security policy and our PGP key can be found at [2].

The major features and improvements in these releases are:

SECURITY:

  • core/audit: fix regression where client tokens and token accessors were being displayed in the audit log in plaintext [HCSEC-2024-18]

See the Changelog at [3] for the full list of improvements and bug fixes.

See the Feature Deprecation Notice and Plans page [8] for our upcoming feature deprecation plans.

Community [6] and Enterprise [7] Docker images will be available soon.


Upgrading

See [4] for general upgrade instructions and [5] for upgrade instructions and known issues.

As always, we recommend upgrading and testing this release in an isolated environment. If you experience any non-security issues, please report them on the Vault GitHub issue tracker or post to the Vault Discuss Forum at [9].

Sincerely, The Vault Team

[1] Vault v1.17.5 Binaries | HashiCorp Releases

[2] Security at HashiCorp

[3] vault/CHANGELOG.md at main · hashicorp/vault · GitHub

[4] https://developer.hashicorp.com/vault/docs/upgrading

[5] Release Notes | Vault | HashiCorp Developer

[6] https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/vault

[7] https://hub.docker.com/r/hashicorp/vault-enterprise

[8] Deprecation notices | Vault | HashiCorp Developer

[9] Vault - HashiCorp Discuss