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vaultGHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2

Incorrect Privilege Assignment in HashiCorp Vault

High8.1CVE-2021-42135 · Published Oct 12, 2021 · updated Aug 21, 2024

GitHub advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
github.com/hashicorp/vault
Go
>= 1.8.0, <= 1.8.4No fix yet
Details and references

HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.8.x through 1.8.4 may have an unexpected interaction between glob-related policies and the Google Cloud secrets engine. Users may, in some situations, have more privileges than intended, e.g., a user with read permission for the /gcp/roleset/* path may be able to issue Google Cloud service account credentials.

CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Severity from
GitHub (reviewed advisory)
Weakness
CWE-266, CWE-863
Also known as
BIT-vault-2021-42135, CVE-2021-42135, GO-2022-0578

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