CVSS 3.1
8.1 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NCVE-2021-42135
High (8.1) in hashicorp vault. EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in github.com/hashicorp/vault 1.8.5.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 55% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-269
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- hashicorp:vault
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2 | Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.8.0 <=1.8.4 | no fix published |
| GO-2022-0578 | Go | github.com/hashicorp/vault | >=1.8.0 <1.8.5 | 1.8.5 |
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-28-vaults-google-cloud-secrets-engine-policies-with-globs-may-provide-additional-privileges-in-vault-1-8-0-onwards/
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-28-vaults-google-cloud-secrets-engine-policies-with-globs-may-provide-additional-privileges-in-vault-1-8-0-onwards/