CVE-2021-38554

Summary

CVECVE-2021-38554
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-08-13 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-09-08 21:37:00 UTC
DescriptionHashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise’s UI erroneously cached and exposed user-viewed secrets between sessions in a single shared browser. Fixed in 1.8.0 and pending 1.7.4 / 1.6.6 releases.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-212

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All
Application Hashicorp Vault All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HCSEC-2021-19 - Vault’s UI Cached User-Viewed Secrets Between Shared Browser Sessions - Security - HashiCorp Discuss MISC discuss.hashicorp.com
HashiCorp Vault: Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202207-01) — Gentoo security GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 501935 Alpine Linux Security Update for vault
  • 710575 Gentoo Linux HashiCorp Vault Multiple Vulnerabilities (GLSA 202207-01)
  • 980382 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-6239-28c2-9mrm)
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