CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-38553
4.4 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-13
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 4.4 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-281
Description
HashiCorp Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.4.0 through 1.7.3 initialized an underlying database file associated with the Integrated Storage feature with excessively broad filesystem permissions. Fixed in Vault and Vault Enterprise 1.8.0.
Affected configurations
• hashicorp vault (>= 1.4.0 < 1.8.0)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions weakness
References
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-20-vault-s-integrated-storage-backend-database-file-may-have-excessively-broad-permissions/28168 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 Third Party Advisory
- https://discuss.hashicorp.com/t/hcsec-2021-20-vault-s-integrated-storage-backend-database-file-may-have-excessively-broad-permissions/28168 Vendor Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202207-01 Third Party Advisory