CVE-2021-42135

Summary

CVECVE-2021-42135
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-11 03:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-07-12 17:42:00 UTC
DescriptionHashiCorp 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-269

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-2021-28 - Vault's Google Cloud Secrets Engine Policies With Globs May Provide Additional Privileges in Vault 1.8.0 Onwards - Security - HashiCorp Discuss MISC discuss.hashicorp.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 980402 Go (go) Security Update for github.com/hashicorp/vault (GHSA-362v-wg5p-64w2)
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