CVSS 3.1
7.5 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:NCVE-2021-38599
High (7.5) in wal-g project wal-g. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/wal-g/wal-g 1.1.
WAL-G before 1.1, when a non-libsodium build (e.g., one of the official binary releases published as GitHub Releases) is used, silently ignores the libsodium encryption key and uploads cleartext backups. This is arguably a Principle of Least Surprise violation because "the user likely wanted to encrypt all file activity."
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 57% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-754
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- wal-g_project:wal-g
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-vrmr-f2qh-3hhf | Go | github.com/wal-g/wal-g | <1.1 | 1.1 |